Mick Liubinskas is known to many in the industry for his energy and drive, and his focused ideals about what the local entrepreneur ecosystem should look like. He has...
Policy
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A new set of prizes have joined the crowded awards scene, celebrating the innovative use of big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) in Australia. The BigInsights Data...
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For the past 18 months, the federal government has inundated Australian businesses with the apparent benefits of the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement, such has been the laser-like focus on...
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The communications regulator in the UK, Ofcom, has notified BT that it is to legally separate from OpenReach after BT failed to offer voluntary proposals that address Ofcom’s competition...
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The latest report card on Australia’s business smarts describes a country that is good at employing innovative techniques but poor at producing the big value breakthroughs. The 2016 Australian...
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The NSW Government has launched a raft of new engagement plans and procurement models as the central components of its just-released NSW Innovation Strategy. The new initiative includes the...
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You are never too young to know what you want to be in life. Take a cue from University of South Australia (UniSA). As one of Australian’s youngest universities,...
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Public sector bureaucrats are stymieing innovation efforts at both federal and state government levels with “gatekeepers from hell” impeding the progress of local startups. According to Stephen Conroy, former...
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The ‘innovation literacy’ of Australia’s political and business leadership might have improved significantly in the past two years, it is still well short of the countries that lead the...
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The much-anticipated Crossroads report from advocacy group StartupAus has lobbed onto the internet, painting a glass-half-full picture of Australia’s entrepreneur scene while at the same time warning that the...
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We live in strange times. Debates about things that matter get so obscured by political weirdness that it takes the intervention of an industry giant to point out the...
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The man hand-picked by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to lead the digital transformation of the Australian Government, Paul Shetler, has resigned. Mr Shetler, who was hired as the chief executive...
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The Turnbull Government’s threatening stance towards the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been ramped up with the announcement that plans to repeal the telecommunications-specific anti-competitive conduct laws...
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Pound for pound the Australian tech sector is producing better startup operators than its counterpart ecosystem in Silicon Valley, according to Freelancer.com’s acerbic CEO Matt Barrie. But that doesn’t...