Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

DTO draws up plan to join Digital5

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government is angling to join the Digital Five grouping of digitally advanced countries and has charged the Digital Transformation Office with creating a formal plan to get...

The tortured path of NBN’s journey

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The tortured journey of what could have been one of Australia defining infrastructure projects, a digital Snowy River project as someone once referred to it, is taking yet another...

Cloudstaff: What Lloyd did next

Posted on   |  by James Riley
More than a decade after cashing out of his dotcom era business WebCentral to Australia’s innovation obsessed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, internet pioneer Lloyd Ernst is on a roll...

Why four ports are better than one

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Health care and how to fund it was a hot political topic last week. But only the week before NBN Co had been providing its own input, promoting telehealth...

It’s springtime in China for the PM

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Australian businesses will get a close look at some of China’s biggest technology companies including Huawei Technologies, Alibaba, Baidu, and JD.com as part of the Australia Week in China...

Wyatt’s art of staying on message

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy certainly gets around. He’s been popping up all over the place recently, bringing his youthful enthusiasm to the Turnbull Government’s innovation agenda. Monday...

Clean Innovation Fund a neat fix

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Yesterday’s announcement of a new $1 billion Clean Energy Innovation Fund (CEIF) is a largely symbolic move designed to boost the Coalition’s green credentials before the upcoming election. It...

Why Bill Shorten won’t get elected

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Shorten and his team have a spring in their step and feel they have a whiff of a chance of rolling the Turnbull Government at the coming election....

FinTech deserves our backing, fast

Posted on   |  by Alex Scandurra
This week’s significant announcement Backing Australian Fintech by the Treasurer builds on the down-payment made last year by the Prime Minister and Ministers Christopher Pyne and Wyatt Roy in the National...