Tag: Angus Taylor

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

A-minus for our first tech PM

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
If a week is a long time in politics, spare thought for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has now been in the job for a year. His expert...

The DTO’s giant revolving door

Posted on   |  by James Riley
To the casual observer, the Digital Transformation Office looks like it has become a high-powered revolving door. Lots of people, lots of churn. The latest senior appointment is former Treasury...

Marketplace is a first step reform

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government has taken a major step forward on its road to reforming procurement practices with the launch this week of a new Digital Marketplace for buyers and...

Coalition releases Smart Cities plan

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Less than two weeks from the election, Turnbull Government has released its Smart Cities policy. But it contains very little new funding – the few real initiatives announced will...

Labor ramps up crowd funding plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor innovation spokesperson Ed Husic has indicated a Labor government would get an equity crowd funding regime up and running within 100 days of being elected. Long mulled over...

Election debate was a glass half full

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Far from going backwards in the global stakes, Australia’s tech and innovation sectors are at a tipping point toward improved commercial success on world markets, according to Angus Taylor,...

Debate a question of philosophy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Labor Party doesn’t understand innovation because it is not in their DNA. The Coalition doesn’t understand innovation because they don’t understand people. That, in a nutshell, is how...

Election 2016: Meet the candidates

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There are no two better qualified candidates to debate issues of digital transformation and innovation than the Liberal member for Hume Angus Taylor and Labor’s member for Chifley Ed...