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Fifield: The lost child of Cabinet

Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that Tony Abbott is still Prime Minister and is busy executing his groundbreaking innovation strategy. Then imagine that he has a...

SIV torrent turns to a slow trickle

The geyser of mainly Chinese money meant to fertilize Australia’s venture capital and startup sectors, and small cap companies, via the government’s recast Significant Investment Visa scheme has largely...

PM’s Cabinet crew on innovation

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull last night chaired the first meeting of the Innovation and Science Committee of the Cabinet. The meeting marks the first time a Cabinet-level committee...

Women on boards: the uphill grind

Forty-three per cent of appointments to ASX 200 boards in January were female. It’s an encouraging statistic, but the rebalancing still has a long, long way to go. The...

Entrepreneur visa opens new doors

The creation of an entrepreneur visa was always a good idea. Australia has visa streams specifically designed to attract capital, and others to attract business and technical skills that...

StartupAus: The politics of power

StartupAus is a hugely influential voice in the Australian tech and innovation landscape. It is self-described as the “peak advocacy group for startups.” But the thing about StartupAus is...

The streaming eagle.io has landed

Get ready to hear a lot more about streaming analytics. The term describes the real-time analysis of data from sensors and monitors and RFID chips and all the other...

Nerd Bird takes TEDx to the sky

Qantas has held the first ever aerial TED talks, in the first class cabin of a Boeing 747 (flight QF73) flying from Sydney to San Francisco on Thursday afternoon....

Govt defines a creative innovation

Malcolm Turnbull has made a big deal about innovation. His Government’s new National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA), released last December, made broad announcements about tax and other incentives...

Flatline for uni tech enrolments

Australia’s universities open their doors to a new crop of around 84,800 undergraduates from this week; demand for IT courses is proving “steady but not spectacular.” There has been...

Gov.AU targets thorny trust issues

The Digital Transformation Office capped its biggest week since being set up seven months ago with the formal acceptance of its Gov.AU Alpha prototype. The agency also started discovery...

On science, religion and the CSIRO

The head of CSIRO, Larry Marshall, has apologised for comparing the passions aroused by climate change with those sparked by religion. “The politics of climate, I think there’s a...

The Nationals and the Glass Snowy

Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash were elected to the Senate in 2004, at a time when telecommunications was a central political issue of the day – courtesy of the...

Telstra taps Green energy market

There is good news and bad for Australia’s nascent renewable energy industry. Listed companies in the sector are significantly outperforming the rest of the ASX, but renewables are still...