A Greens motion to revoke planning amendments for Apple’s highly controversial store at Federation Square has been resoundingly defeated in the Victorian Parliament. The motion was brought forward by...
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Australia’s mandatory data breach notification scheme has officially come into effect as the federal government looks to further ramp up its focus on cyber security. The data breach notification...
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Australia’s new mandatory data breach notification scheme has been tentatively welcomed by digital rights advocates, while new research has found many businesses are not ready or even aware of...
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Barely a week after presiding over the official opening of the $35 million Sydney Startup Hub, the inaugural Jobs for NSW chief executive officer Karen Borg has left the...
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Big investment decisions don’t get made in a vacuum. They are the end-point of targeted work by powerful interests over a period of time. Very often there is an...
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The 500 Startups scandal in Victoria appears to have jolted the country’s venture capital community into acknowledging the need for more female involvement in the tech and innovation ecosystem....
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South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has won a Dutch government grant to fast-track its “world-first” Internet of Things network for farms around the world, while Queensland rocket company...
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The NSW government has announced it will establish its own Productivity Commission to spearhead policy reforms to make it easier to do business in the state, including a review...
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Much-anticipated reforms extending equity crowdfunding to private companies have yet to move through the Parliament, nearly six months after the bills were first introduced. The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding...
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Newly-appointed Industry minister Michaelia Cash says the government is still committed to appointing a Women’s Advisory Panel to help guide gender issues in the portfolio, despite more than a...
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If your doctor whips out her smartphone to take a photo of your skin rash to share with a colleague, how will that image be protected, how long will...
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The lack of women in venture capital can trace its roots to structural problems within the industry, as well as the low take-up of STEM (science, technology, engineering and...
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The ribbon has now been cut on the stunning new Sydney Startup Hub – home to 2,500 entrepreneurs and a Microsoft global accelerator – but David Thodey is looking...
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South Australian satellite communications company Myriota will push $2.72 million into an Internet of Things lab in Adelaide as it attempts to scale-up quickly for what it sees as...