Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has waned Australian businesses to lessen their reliance on China as tensions with the rising superpower drive domestic policies aimed at diversifying the economy and protecting...
The federal government’s patent box scheme will only apply to new inventions created after May, while it is still considering how best to target it at the BioTech and...
Australia is facing an enormous productivity challenge, with an urgent need for governments at all levels to drive digitisation and the reskilling of workers, the 2021 Intergenerational Report has...
Long-awaited reforms to employee share schemes aren’t expected anytime soon and may not be introduced before the next election, despite the federal government promising changes in the May budget...
The government’s new patent box scheme risks being a “knee-jerk reaction to embrace a new concept” that provides a tax break to big firms and little benefit to the...
The Morrison Government has made a hallmark of relying on expert medical advice in its Covid-19 response. What are the appropriate limits to reliance on expert advice in policymaking?...
A limited patent box scheme will be launched by the federal government, offering tax breaks for medical and biotech innovations in an effort to boost commercialisation and retain IP...
The federal government has again announced plans for major reforms of the employee share scheme at a cost of $550 million, after promising a series of changes to the...
The Morrison government’s second pandemic budget contained plenty of red meat for the tech industry through its $1.2 billion digital economy strategy initiatives. But despite this focus, the Digital...
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has rightly connected the government’s big investment into its digital economy strategy to its program of economic recovery. But it is a lost opportunity if the...