Author: Joseph Brookes

A digital economy strategy must include targets

Posted on   |  by Tim Marshall
The Morrison government should be commended on its commitments to a digital economy strategy. For a government galoshing its way through a mire of unplanned issues, it’s good to...

Gig Guide: FinTech Australia’s new board member

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Former senior advisor to the Turnbull and Morrison governments Harry Godber has been added to the board of FinTech Australia as an independent director. Mr Godber acted as an...

Aussie science wants a ‘legacy defining’ budget

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Climate change mitigation, STEM education, and research commercialisation and funding are atop the budget wishlists of Australia’s scientists, engineers and medical researchers. They say this year’s budget could be...

Chief Scientist on ‘glacial’ STEM diversity progress

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Achieving gender parity in senior STEM leadership positions in Australia will take more than 150 years at the current pace, according to Australia’s chief scientist Dr Cathy Foley, who...

NSW to introduce data breach notification laws

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
NSW is set to become the first Australian state or territory to introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme, following a serious cyber incident last year. NSW public sector...

DTA ‘oversight’ kept $66M SAP contract hidden

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Digital Transformation Agency gave German multinational SAP a contract worth more than $65 million for cloud services in June last year but failed to publish the tender notice...

Games sector tax incentive ‘levels playing field’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia based game developers will receive a 30 per cent tax offset on qualifying expenditure, as part of the federal government’s $1.2 billion digital economy package announced Thursday. The...

‘Slippage’ in good governance in Communications

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Poor governance and rampant outsourcing are plaguing the communications portfolio, according to shadow Minister Michelle Rowland, who has warned the Coalition government’s intervention into independent entities like the ABC,...

NextSense joins Macquarie University hearing hub

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The recently rebranded Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children will relocate to a new $74 million Centre of Excellence in Macquarie University, already home to the Australian Hearing...