Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Feakin: Our man in cyber

Posted on   |  by James Riley
“That was something a bit different,” Australia Thailand Chamber of Commerce president Brenton Mauriello remarked following a 90-minute breakfast session on cyber security issues on the rooftop of Bangkok’s...

PM plots refresh for cyber strategy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Just 14 months after the launch of the Australian Government’s Cyber Security Strategy, the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has begun a process of refreshing the plan, and has looked...

Still no response to R&D report

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal government has made no changes to the R&D Tax Incentive scheme in the Budget despite widespread unrest with the scheme among startups and a bunch of untouched...

Census fires DTA cyber response

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The great eCensus fail of 2016 was the Turnbull government’s most publicly embarrassing cyber security stuff up and the Digital Transformation Agency scores extra funds from the 2017 budget...

Skilled visas now a cash cow

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal government will slap a levy on employers of foreign workers coming into the country on the new Temporary Skill Shortage visa that’s expected to reap more than...

Daring to dream: Budget 2017

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The last three federal budgets have provided only meagre fare for the Aussie tech and innovation sectors. But tonight will be different. There will be meat on the bones...

New skills visas’ a tech problem

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has waved a wand and made politically troublesome 457 visas go away with a clever rebranding exercise, but IT employee advocacy groups say the new...

China cyber deal a shocking rort

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Buoyed by its rather spectacular failure to ink a deeply flawed extradition treaty with China, the Turnbull government has once more charged fearlessly into fresh deals with the country’s...

457s: Deep tech’s uncertain times

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Petra Andren is the chief executive of the nation’s oldest and most successful tech incubator, Cicada Innovations at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. It is home to more...