Tag: Australia

Aust presses US for regional digital trade pact

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia is in active discussions with the US to sign a regional digital trade agreement in an effort to re-engage America in the Indo-Pacific region and boost the local...

Huawei ban to blame for icy relations: China

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian government’s “unethical” and “illegal” ban of China’s global technology brand Huawei had contributed significantly to the deterioration of relations between the two nations, a senior Chinese diplomat...

The curious case of AWS and gov’t

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The whole of government sourcing arrangement signed between the Digital Transformation Agency and the global cloud giant Amazon Web Services raises serious questions about sovereignty in relation to the...

Huawei calls out $51b NBN failure

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
Huawei Australia chief technology officer David Soldani has delivered a blistering assessment of Australia’s national broadband roll-out, hammering both the federal government and NBN Co as architects of the...

US-China spat moves to science

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Escalating economic and geopolitical competition between the US and China has sharpened this past week, manifested in a raft and new trade tariffs and increasingly hostile rhetoric from President...

Aussie VC soars, but it’s lumpy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The amount of venture capital invested in Australia has soared to a record high, but with a lower number of deals there are concerns about a remaining funding gap...

The Crossroads state of play

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian startup ecosystem has enjoyed rapid growth and development in the last year, but is still “young and relatively immature” on the world stage, according to the StartupAus...

Law is falling far behind the tech

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
Legislation addressing the deployment of emerging technologies in Australia is “so far behind we don’t even know how far behind we are” according to Law Council president Fiona McLeod....

Suddenly space is really, really big

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The US famously went from nowhere to the moon in ten years, so maybe Australia can get a space agency up and running in three times that time period....