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Govt’s procurement push gets a quiet rebrand

The Future Made in Australia Office established by the Albanese government has been quietly rebranded after it was being confused with a wider clean energy industrialisation agenda of the...

Labor: Hopelessly outgunned amid a deluge of dollars

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The volume and velocity of dollars being sprayed by the Coalition at industry development programs from space to critical minerals to artificial intelligence in the past several months has...

Cyber strategy a missed local opportunity

Posted on   |  by James Riley
If anyone were waiting on the Australian Government Cyber Security Strategy 2020 to include a set of industry policies that would help grow the local cyber security sector, they...

Sovereign capability the digital key

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s tech sector – specifically its information and communication technology industry – is about half the size of its global peers as a proportion of GDP and ranks second...

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...

Grant competition to attract SMEs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal Department of Industry steadfastly refuses to call it a procurement policy or an industry development program, but the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is a new...

An uncommon pursuit via the ASX

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
8common is a small Australian software company with big plans. Since its IPO on the ASX in August 2014 it has more than doubled in size, and now has...

Final call: Open Opportunity Forum

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The energetic Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy will deliver a keynote live from Tel Aviv with an update on his trade mission to Israel, outlining new ideas for...

Adelaide: looking for love in Asia

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Once upon a time, in the heady days of 1987 when The Bangles, Whitney Houston and Crowded House ruled the pop charts, South Australia was preparing to create a...