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Taylor charts new digital direction

The Prime Minister’s point-man on digital government Angus Taylor will today unveil a re-engineering of the Digital Transformation Agenda – one of Malcolm Turnbull’s signature policies – that will...

Census debacle: Heads roll at IBM

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The two most senior executives running the giant IBM Global Technology Services business in Australia – the service provider behind the 2016 Census debacle – have quietly separated from...

ASEAN is a prize for Aussie tech

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...

Telstrafication of the NBN grows

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Malcolm Turnbull and Ziggy Switkowski’s ever-moving, ever-changing NBN Co has released its 2017 Corporate Plan. Once again, the company has bombarded readers with so many numbers that it’s hard...

Census the canary in the coalmine

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The 2016 Census and its steaming #CensusFail epitaph may yet prove useful to government. This shocking failure of public administration is the canary in the coal mine, the emergency...

Gov’t tech creds are now in tatters

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There must, surely, never have been such an exciting time to be Malcolm Turnbull. The Prime Minister has been desperately keen to focus the attention of the nation squarely...

#CensusFail a shocking balls-up

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The fallout from the census debacle would be amusing to watch if it was not so serious. We have politicians making fools of themselves, bureaucrats with substantial amounts of...

In search of micro-multinationals

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Professor Roy Green is one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on innovation ecosystem policy. And like the rest of us, he’s feeling slightly deflated. The University of Technology Sydney Business...

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...

Turnbull adds innovation Grunt

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull committed before the election to make only minor changes to his ministry. And true to his word, as ministerial reshuffles go, the post-election changes announced...