Labor has unveiled new funding for CSIRO-led climate research at an election doorstop on Friday. Shadow industry spokesman Kim Carr, announced the promised boost at the CSIRO Climate Science...
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Labor will move to further exempt startups from planned cuts to the research and development tax incentive if it wins the upcoming federal election. In the first concrete confirmation...
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Chinese telecommunications powerhouse Huawei has been given the go ahead to participate in Britain’s 5G network rollouts, media reports out of the UK have confirmed. If UK Secretary of...
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The first time Cylance founder chief executive Stuart McClure travelled to Australia, as a 19-year-old, he had a near-death experience en-route that changed his outlook on life quite profoundly....
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Former Innovation and Science Australia board member and tech industry veteran Daniel Petre has offered a withering assessment of the federal government’s strategic innovation planning and its commitment to...
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The federal government has committed $100 million over five years for a fund providing “patient capital” to Australian small and medium businesses in a move that a tech industry...
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Labor will crack down on the skilled visa scheme if it wins the upcoming election, but has moved to reassure the tech sector that this will not impact efforts...
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Australia’s former ambassador to Israel and Liberal candidate for the Sydney seat of Wentworth, Dave Sharma says Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is struggling to master...
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Freshly-minted NSW customer service minister Victor Dominello will impose mandated digital designs and data architectures across government departments in order to standardise service delivery and data collection in all...
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Government’s failure to pass the Consumer Data Right legislation before the May election could lead to further delays to the rollout of the open banking scheme. When both houses...
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The federal government has rejected a recommendation to make the Australian Signals Directorate’s “baseline” Essential Eight cyber mitigation strategies mandatory. Earlier this month the government quietly tabled its response...
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The most significant shift in the Victorian government’s IT infrastructure in more than a decade will be completed by the end of the year. State-owned ICT service enterprise Cenitex...
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With the federal government now in caretaker mode ahead of the May poll, the Department of Industry has quietly shelved the public release of its Industry Growth Centres performance...
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The federal election campaign has officially kicked off, and it’s already clear that the tech sector will not feature in the prominent way it did during former PM Malcolm...