Tag: Budget 2020

Australia and our fractured digital future

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Australia’s digitally branded budget is being breathlessly marketed to drive Australia towards becoming a leading digital economy by 2030. Except that the plan is twenty years too late, and...

Hiring boost as CSIRO gets staff cap reprieve

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The CSIRO will bring on more than 200 new employees after the federal government granted it a staffing cap reprieve and funding boost, but concerns remain about its long-term...

Budget Insider: All eyes on the year of reckoning

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The October 2020 federal budget was “an oxygen mask to keep us going,” according to Australian National University associate professor Catherine Ball, and the nation will won’t face its...

Manufacturing and renewables: Albo’s budget reply

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has unveiled his alternate vision for Australia’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on revitalising local manufacturing through renewable energy and defence industry...

Govt abandons controversial RDTI reforms

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Highly controversial reforms to the research and development tax incentive have been officially scrapped in a “huge win” for the tech sector, with the federal government backing down from...

CSIRO gets a $459m budget lifeline for science

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The federal government has thrown CSIRO a $459 million lifeline as the country’s peak science research organisation reels from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its industry partnership...

Industry welcomes new approach to technology

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s second budget, delivered as the nation grapples with policies to deliver a post-COVID economic recovery, marks an important milestone in building a competitive digital economy, the...