Author: Joseph Brookes

Leaders warm to Mazzucato’s missions

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State and federal ministers have endorsed popular economist Mariana Mazzucato’s ‘mission-oriented’ approach to economic growth and flagged upcoming policy for decarbonising Australia’s economy will take inspiration from it. After...

Buy Now Pay Later to be regulated as credit

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“Loopholes” that allowed Australia’s $18 billion Buy Now Pay Later sector to explode with little regulation will be closed under an Albanese government plan to treat companies like Afterpay...

Mazzucato’s mission for Australian innovation

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Persistent Australian innovation problems like stagnant R&D and low economic complexity would be turned around with more ambitious and strategic “growth” policy, according to influential economist Mariana Mazzucato. Professor...

Automated decisioning sweeps across NSW govt

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Hundreds of automated decision-making systems have been found in the first mapping of the technologies across the NSW public sector, with most being developed without a specific regulatory framework....

Govt consults on criminalising doxxing

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Attorney General Mark Dreyfus on Sunday launched a two-and-a-half week consultation on privacy law reforms to address doxxing, after hundreds of Jewish Australians’ details were published online. The Albanese...

Moonshot: An industrial reboot for the Australian economy

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Influential economist Mariana Mazzucato will urge Australia’s leaders to implement “mission” policy that catalyses public-private partnerships to solve existential challenges like the climate crisis when she arrives in Australia...

Use of encryption powers doubles but still no terrorism cases

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Australia’s controversial encryption-busting powers have not been used to investigate terrorism offences for a fifth year in a row, despite the former Coalition government using the heightened prospect of...

R&D investment drought needs govt cash splash

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Scientists and technologists will again push the Albanese government to make a multi-billion-dollar investment in research and development in this year’s budget after little progress towards an election commitment...

Scam crackdown bearing fruit

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Reported scam losses are down more than 40 per cent after industry teamed with regulators and law enforcement to combat stings last year, as the consumer regulator pushes for...