Tag: Jane Hume

Govt rejects new Office of Science and Technology

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
The Coalition has knocked back a proposal to investigate the establishment of a Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology which would provide independent advice to policymakers. Labor and the...

Govt wary of over-regulating AI: Jane Hume

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government is wary of over-regulating new technologies such as artificial intelligence and will resist making ethics standards and codes mandatory for Australian businesses, Digital Economy minister Jane Hume...

A Marketplace milestone that is without meaning

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is important to mark milestones and to celebrate successes. This is how most of us maintain forward momentum in important work. But when the ‘success’ is so lame...

Jane Hume promoted: digital economy minister

Posted on   |  by James Riley
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...

Australian FinTech: Worth its weight in gold

Posted on   |  by Jane Hume
One of the most remarkable things about the COVID pandemic is how investors rushed to listed technology equities as panic struck global markets. Whereas gold has traditionally dominated as...

Newfound drives new FinTech market access

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Financial communications surveillance and a bank-linked ethical spending app were among the FinTech pitches from around the world at the recent Newfound Market Mission to Australia event. The inaugural...

FinTech, data rights and a Newfound mission

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Australia’s consumer data right legislation doesn’t just exist to open up the banking sector, it’s for making the product matching and switching process much easier in an increasingly wide...

No-one’s playing in the sandbox

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will look to pass legislation improving the regulatory sandbox as a “matter of priority” when Parliament resumes next month after it was revealed that only seven...

Meet Australia’s FinTech minister

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Victorian senator Jane Hume has become sworn in as Australia’s first assistant minister for financial technology within Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s second ministry. Mr Morrison announced his new team...