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PM’s guide to mandarin survival

Proclaiming that there has “never been a more exciting time to be a public servant” the Prime Minister laid down his ideas yesterday for how savvy mandarins can live...

Gazumped by the Kiwis again

What a difference a week makes. On April 13, Australia’s first ever Special Trade Envoy Andrew Robb took about 300 Australian business people to visit the headquarters of Alibaba,...

Canberra bulwark for SAP HANA

SAP has shelled out part of the $150 million Australian investment purse unveiled here by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in late 2014 to light up an enterprise cloud service...

How I interviewed the PM in China

As part of Australia Week in China (AWIC) 2016, I was invited to launch the Australia startup landing pad in Shanghai with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, followed by Tech...

Nanotech changes ‘as big as digital’

Nanotechnology will force a change in commerce and society at least as significant as the digital revolution, and companies that want to get in on the ground level need...

Govt establishes PC data inquiry

The Productivity Commission has called for submissions to its inquiry into Data Availability and Use which seems set to impact organisations’ ability and opportunity to leverage consumer and citizen...

Thodey: We must be bolder, faster

For all of the loud and powerful corporate voices who are comfortable telling government and the rest of us what to do, there is one that is trusted above...

Turnbull in China: It’s all upside

The Innovation stream for government’s ambitious Australia Week in China program running this week may not have been the most popular on the massive eight-city caravan that has seen...

Budget Insider: Book seats now

InnovationAus.com is greatly pleased and super-stoked to announce the inaugural Budget Insider 2016, a super-cool innovation policy soiree hosted with event partners Stone & Chalk and Swaab Attorneys. If...

PM’s Cyber review due April 21

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will personally unveil the long-awaited review of Australia’s cyber security capability on April 21, with a raft of measures expected to include frameworks for...

NSW appoints data advisory board

The NSW Government’s data analytics centre – ‘the DAC’ as it has come to be known – is off to a flyer with the appointment of a new advisory board...

DTO draws up plan to join Digital5

The Australian Government is angling to join the Digital Five grouping of digitally advanced countries and has charged the Digital Transformation Office with creating a formal plan to get...

US pushes Digital Economy strategy

While the Australian Government’s industry policy has hitched its wagon to the single word ‘innovation,’ the United States is taking a broader view with a more rounded approach to...

Stephen Elop’s new Telstra test

Telstra chief executive Andy Penn’s ambitious bid to recast the telco as a technology company is underway, with former Nokia chief and senior Microsoft executive Stephen Elop starting work...