Tag: Election 2016

Digital health is still in need of love

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
While the major parties played fast and loose with Medicare in the final days of the election campaign, neither has properly grasped the digital health nettle. Right now just...

Digital dashboard beta set to launch

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Office’s has completed an early beta of its much anticipated – and controversial – Performance Dashboard product, which is expected to be launched within a couple...

The banality of election cynicism

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is a closed circle of thinking in the tech community that gets exasperated at every single thing that government does. If only the government would get out of...

ASIC to play in ScoMo’s sandbox

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The regulatory sandbox being proposed by ASIC is as much a plaything for the regulator as it is a place to nurture emerging FinTech companies, Treasurer Scott Morrison has...

Did someone say where’s Wyatt?

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
The theme of this column was going to be ‘Where’s Wyatt?’ Since his somewhat disappointing performance on the Innovation Special of ABC TV’s Q&A program on March 28 he...

NBN: Heads must roll, Ziggy’s first

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Ziggy Switkowski’s spectacularly ill-advised and highly political injection of himself and the NBN Co he chairs into the election debate in its timing, content and repercussions mark a turning...

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...