Tag: Jay Weatherill

Coding for kids: South Australia

Posted on   |  by James Riley
All public primary school students in South Australia will be taught coding and entrepreneurship as part of a near-$7 million state government election pitch. If re-elected in next month,...

SA’s radical tech law on hold

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The South Australia government has retreated from its attempt to pass legislation that would have allowed startups and tech companies to bypass state laws in the name of innovation...

Final frontier has a new agency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia will finally get a national space agency to coordinate local efforts in the sector and gain a chunk of the $400 billion global industry, the federal government has...

States vie for space agency pie

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Competition between states to host the proposed Australian space agency is heating up, with a number of governments already putting their cases forward to the Commonwealth for consideration. The...

GigCity network lights up Adelaide

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The South Australian government has flicked the switch on “ultra-fast” internet in Adelaide, making it “one of the most connected cities in the world”. The $7.6 million GigCity Adelaide...

Martin O’Malley on cities and data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Martin O’Malley is a former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of the US state of Maryland. He was also a candidate in the 2016 presidential nomination race for the...

Industry policy turns to Defence

Posted on   |  by James Riley
If the innovation flavour of the Turnbull Government was in its early days all about startups and software entrepreneurs, the tone of the Prime Minister’s new ministry points toward...

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...