Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

Startup tax changes set for change

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull Government will today introduce legislation that delivers huge tax benefits to angel investors who put their money into in higher risk, early stage startup companies that make...

Turnbull’s board goes heavy on VC

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Malcolm Turnbull’s powerful new Innovation and Science Australia Board is heavy on venture capital and entrepreneurial representation and goes light on science and tertiary and institutional research. And it...

Copperart NBN is new Labor target

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Communications Minister Jason Clare is framing an election argument around the government’s “Copperart version of the NBN” as damaging leaks about the slow roll-out, cost over-runs and poor...

China tech and the five-year-plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
For all the talk from China’s leaders these past two-and-a half-years of economic reforms that will allow the market and private enterprise to have a larger role in the...

Time is up on the Digital Economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Time has probably run out for the Turnbull Government to make good on its 2013 election promise to provide an update to the National Digital Economy Strategy. There had been...

Cyber warfare: getting policy right

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s latest Defence White Paper isn’t doing enough to address the innovation that is cyber warfare. Wars are won by innovators; be that innovation in strategy, technology or both. Innovations...

Open data gets location boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is a real-world aphorism that tells us the three most important contributors to a successful business is location, location and location. It turns out this is equally true...

Tony Turnbull’s FinTech foray

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Sir Humphrey Appleby this week smashed a bottle of bubbly over the bow of a new FinTech committee, blessing all who sail in her. At least I assume it...

Fifield: The lost child of Cabinet

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Close your eyes and imagine, if you will, that Tony Abbott is still Prime Minister and is busy executing his groundbreaking innovation strategy. Then imagine that he has a...