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The Turnbull charm offensive

Prime Minister Turnbull has announced his new Ministry, and in doing so continued his charm offensive. Referring to his Government as a 21st century one was yet another reference...

Turnbull moves digital to PM&C

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made good on his promise of putting innovation at the heart of his economic narrative, moving key chunks of government’s digital framework into Department...

Tech sector needs a cold shower

Our new Prime Minister is being publicly attacked by sections of the technology sector for postponing a trade delegation to Silicon Valley that was due to start just 10...

US trip on back burner for new PM

In what we now know were the dying days of the Abbott government, the former Prime Minister’s all powerful chief of staff Peta Credlin, was laying plans to try...

Talent retention key to game sector

A once burgeoning sector, the video games development industry has suffered harsh decline in recent years with international competitors poaching talent, while Abbot’s Government closed the $20 million Australian...

Turnbull’s an old China hand

In May 2011, in his final months as Australia’s Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby –one of Australia’ most outspoken diplomats in recent years – delivered the withering put down...

What next for tech, Malcolm?

Malcolm Turnbull is offering Australia a different style of leadership. He has promised to be more consultative, more collegiate. Tony Abbott offered the same, but didn’t deliver. And Malcolm...

Innovation lessons from Mike Baird

I started this week to write a note about conducting corporate innovation programs when I was once again distracted by Mike Baird, in this case, announcing his revised “Premier’s...

The NBN is no template for change

At his first press conference after his successful leadership ballot Mr Turnbull was asked whether he was going to change the economic direction or going to change the way...

Game developers at Crossy Roads

If you watched the stylishly gargantuan Apple product launch in San Francisco last week, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Australian game development industry must be going...

Regulation opportunity for PM

Forbes magazine titled a 2013 article Lessons From Uber: Why Innovation And Regulation Don’t Mix. It’s a common enough view in innovation circles. Research by the Manchester Business School...

Dodging China’s cyber cannon

On the afternoon of September 14, when Malcolm Turnbull made his successful pitch to replace Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, he chose to use Labor’s opposition to FTA as...

Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister

The swearing in of Malcolm Turnbull as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister will inevitably bring the powerful technological forces that are re-shaping our economy into sharper focus. This was one...

Tim Watts on the digital economy

Tim Watts is one of the new faces in the Federal Parliament, having been elected to Nicola Roxon’s old seat of Gellibrand in the ‘Class of 2013.’ He is a...