Tag: Alex McCauley

Visa shock: 457 program scrapped

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has abolished Australia’s 457 visa program in a surprise move that has sent shockwaves through the local tech and startup community. Announced via a Facebook...

R&D tax: Hammer cracks a nut

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The R&D Tax Incentive scheme has become muddled by middlemen and a hardening from the ATO in how claims are viewed could be scaring off the firms most in...

IP changes an act of ‘cowardice’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s ‘cowardice’ on copyright reform will damage local tech companies and is indicative of its failure to live up to its innovation rhetoric, Labor has argued in Parliament....

Sydney slides on ecosystem ranks

Posted on   |  by James Riley
You wouldn’t want to bet your house on the veracity of global startup ecosystem rankings. But if you take them with a grain of salt, they are a yardstick...

Aus startup exits now 7th globally

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A new report places Australia seventh in the number of tech industry exits in 2016. Exits are a good thing, based on the terminology used in the startup industry....

Summer reading: A lazy book list

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Ho, Ho, Ho, you beautiful people. We are readying the car for an insanely long road-trip through the deserts of the ‘real Australia’ and have been gathering all the...

Glass half full: Crossroads report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The much-anticipated Crossroads report from advocacy group StartupAus has lobbed onto the internet, painting a glass-half-full picture of Australia’s entrepreneur scene while at the same time warning that the...

Pay-day loans hit R&D tax scheme

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Startups in their critical newborn years need to be fed their R&D refunds more regularly than once every 12 months or risk death by cash starvation. For startups in...

AgriTech the new startup frontier

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Agricultural technology – AgriTech – has the potential to give Australia a $100 billion agricultural industry by 2030, says a new report. That’s a doubling in size in a...