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Encryption laws damage potential: Atlassian

The federal government’s highly controversial encryption laws have damaged the growth of Australia’s tech sector and could hamper the nation’s economic recovery, according to Atlassian. The Australian tech darling...

Atlassian and the CovidSafe team

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian tech darling Atlassian is among the five private companies that helped the federal government build its COVID-19 contact tracing app. More than two million people have now downloaded...

NEC joins Sydney tech precinct project

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Japanese tech giant NEC has signed on as a founding partner of the New South Wales government’s multi-billion-dollar Innovation and Technology Precinct to be constructed around Sydney’s Central railway...

COVID app downloaded 1m times already

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Nearly one million Australians have downloaded the government’s official coronavirus information app in just 24 hours, with “rapid enhancements” to be rolled out in the coming weeks. The coronavirus...

Govt role for our hard hit ecosystem

Posted on   |  by Joan Westenberg
Over this past weekend, the federal government unveiled an Australian coronavirus app and a Whatsapp news service designed to provide citizens with up to date, real-time information about the...

R&D tax interpretations are ‘ludicrous’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The “strict interpretation” of what constitutes an eligible activity under the Research and Development Tax Incentive restricting software claims is “ludicrous” and leading local tech companies to move offshore,...

Tech precinct plan heads to Cabinet

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is more than a year since Premier Gladys Berejiklian stood with Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar in Sydney to unveil the city’s ambition to build an innovation and technology...

Mirvac rebirths a technology precinct

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Mirvac and its consortium partners, AMP Capital, Sunsuper and Centuria Property Funds have opened the doors to the first two buildings of its revamped tech and innovation precinct at...

Lack of consulting undermined AA law

Posted on   |  by Seamus Byrne
The federal government’s controversial encryption legislation had been undermined by an unseemly rush through the Parliament that throttled its industry consultation and a lack of awareness of the reality...

Labor commits to encryption reform

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor would work with industry to fix controversial encryption legislation and pass the baseline recommendations of the Parliament’s joint committee on intelligence and security if it elected to...