Austrade staff were reeling in shock last night after recently-appointed CEO Stephanie Fahey began a major bloodletting at the organisation with three of most senior executives set to leave...
Policy
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The Federal Government has agreed to the creation of a new privacy code to apply to the Australian Public Service following a series of high-profile and embarrassing data debacles...
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Federal Labor would continue to press for an independent review of multi-billion dollar increases in Commonwealth spending on information technology, and have held open the prospect of a Senate...
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Labor shadow treasurer Chris Bowen put the boot into the Coalition’s innovation credentials during his budget reply speech, accusing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of ignoring the country’s future to...
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The global cyber attack that hit more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries last weekend should serve as a wake-up call for the Australian businesses and government agencies that...
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The government’s new “data-driven profiling” method for drug testing welfare recipients risks running into the same issues as its robo-debt tool and poses a serious privacy risk, the Opposition...
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Katherine Woodthorpe is a remarkable chairman: First, she’s a woman and secondly she’s a scientist – both remain rare at the apex of Australian corporate life. A former CEO...
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I don’t receive much feedback about Malcolm Turnbull anymore – not at industry events, discussions with stakeholders in the communications sector, or even at street corner meetings in Blacktown....
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The Federal Government “refocusing” of the incubator support program is a “perplexing” move that demonstrates how innovation has fallen off its list of priorities, according to StartupAus CEO Alex...
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You wouldn’t want to read too much into it, but Bill Shorten’s faux-feisty budget reply last night did nothing to paint a picture of how Labor would shape Australia’s...
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Federal budget nights really are an expectations game. No-one ever gets everything that they want, and sometimes we get things that we specifically don’t want. So really the only...
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The Digital Transformation Agency’s $70 million in additional funding includes a substantially expanded cyber security remit and the creation of centralised platform services to complement its governance and standards-setting...
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Support for Australia’s struggling video game industry went missing in the Federal budget and now Green’s Senator Scott Ludlam is on the hunt for the Turnbull government’s response to...
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Australia is on the verge of a revolution in its financial industry. It will not happen overnight, but all the signs are there. The growth of FinTechs has happened...