Tag: Ed Husic

Husic gets Industry and Innovation portfolio

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor’s sharpest tech sector advocate Ed Husic has been handed the shadow Industry and Innovation portfolio as part of a sweeping reshuffle of the opposition frontbench unveiled by...

Jane Hume promoted: digital economy minister

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Victorian senator Jane Hume has been promoted to Minister for the Digital Economy within the Treasury portfolio as part of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s cabinet reshuffle. Surprisingly, the reshuffle...

Husic to bring his tech focus to shadow cabinet

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government needs to set its ambitions for tech and innovation much higher and encourage creation rather than just adoption, newly appointed shadow minister for agriculture and resources Ed...

Ed Husic is back on the Labor frontbench

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Labor’s strongest tech sector advocate Ed Husic is back on the frontbench after stepping down as shadow minister for the digital economy last year. Mr Husic will initially serve...

Massive win for the local tech industry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The New South Wales government signed a whole of government purchasing arrangement with Vault Cloud on Tuesday, the first such arrangement with a home-grown sovereign technology provider by any...

Ed Husic calls for a smart restart

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia needs a ‘smart restart’ to drive economic growth and jobs creation in the post-COVID-19 period with a focus on the tech and startup sectors, according to Labor MP...

How stupid are we? Ask the government

Posted on   |  by Ed Husic
Ok, I don’t want to shock you but I think it’s safe to say the government thinks we’re all pretty stupid. The COVIDSafe app demonstrates that – or more...

Govt should rescind AWS COVID app contract: Husic

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor’s Ed Husic has called for government to rescind its contract with US tech giant Amazon Web Services to host and manage data from the COVIDSafe contact tracing app...

Questions over AWS tracing deal: Husic

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
There are “big questions” to be answered over Amazon Web Services’ involvement with the federal government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, especially around the company’s use of a China-owned data...