Author: Justin Hendry

Govt awards $25m in grants from cybersecurity skills fund

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Up to $25.4 million in grants have been awarded under the second round of the Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund, just weeks after the federal government was charged...

Consulting giants, DXC join IBM on $1bn-plus Defence SAP project

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Consulting giants Accenture and Deloitte and DXC Technology have been brought in to work on the final phase of Defence’s multi-billion-dollar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system project. The Department...

Digital games tax offset bill enters Parliament

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Australian video game developers have received the green light to begin scaling up their studios and projects after the federal government introduced legislation for the Digital Games Tax Offset...

Coalition-era $1bn fund rebadged to support clean energy tech

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The Albanese government will funnel $500 million into the commercialisation of clean energy technologies through a rebadged version of a $1 billion fund first proposed by the former Coalition...

Is this the end of the third age of capitalism?

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Months ago (in April), as the rise in the CPI was starting to get underway, the InnovationAus editor asked me; “Why is any sign of wage or consumer price...

NSW govt eyes law change to spur ‘good faith’ hacking

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The New South Wales government will push for changes to Commonwealth criminal laws to prevent cybersecurity researchers being prosecuted for reporting potential bugs and vulnerabilities, including in the systems...