Author: Justin Hendry

AUKUS tech trade reforms set for sign-off

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia and United States are poised to unlock billions of dollars in licence-free defence trade on within weeks after the US agreed to sign off on legislation enabling AUKUS...

What next for Google after illegal monopoly ruling?

Posted on   |  by Zena Assaad
On Tuesday, a US federal judge ruled Google has violated antitrust laws, the organisation “is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly“. Google disputes...

Govt dismissed alternate quantum bids in just 10 days

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
All five proposals to the federal government’s quantum computing EoI were ruled out in less than two weeks, in contrast to the six months of internal due diligence and...

Ayres on the social promise of Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Forging a modern manufacturing sector with highly skilled jobs will have a “profound social and democratic effect”, the new Future Made in Australia assistant minister has declared. In his...

Apply FMiA national interest test to quantum bet, says PC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new national interest framework designed to impose “rigour” on Future Made in Australia investments should be retrospectively applied to the federal government’s $470 million quantum computing bet. That’s...

Defence sinks another $20m into robo-subs

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government will pump another $20 million into Defence’s Ghost Shark program to fast-track the production of sovereign-built unmanned military submarines. The new funding comes just months after...

Cognitive dissonance and the Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
In our increasingly complex 21st century world of net zero targets, green energy transitions, fractured geopolitics and technologically-driven systems change, even Realpolitech can accept that the desire for some...

Digital credential sharing resurrected by govts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A plan to share digital credentials across state boundaries is moving forward after a hiatus, with federal and NSW government service delivery agencies completing a “rapid discovery exercise” to...

Blame game won’t protect Australians from scams

Posted on   |  by Sunita Bose
Every story of hard-earned savings being lost to a scammer is heartbreaking; the paychecks lost and the difficulty in telling family and friends. Scam victims should know that behind...