So here’s what has happened so far. On Sunday morning the Prime Minister called for an election to be held on July 2. It’s now Tuesday evening and I...
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Now that Malcolm Turnbull has called a July 2 double dissolution election, the Budget is last week’s news. The phoney war is over and Australia is in election mode....
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The shiny new bauble in the Budget is a $100 million ‘Exploring the Future’ initiative to map mineral, energy and groundwater potential in northern Australia and South Australia. It...
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The eSafety commissioner will move into terror prevention and Australia will add a Cyber Ambassador to its diplomatic ranks, while establishing a ring of joint cyber threat centres across...
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The quiet but persistent strengthening of industry and research relationships with Germany was given a further boost with the creation of a ‘landing pad’ for Australian startup companies in...
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The chief executive officer of high-profile, female-focused angel network Scale Investors, Laura McKenzie, has been named as the final panelist for InnovationAus.com’s Budget Insider 2016, a wine-filled journey into...
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Nanotechnology will force a change in commerce and society at least as significant as the digital revolution, and companies that want to get in on the ground level need...
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The Innovation stream for government’s ambitious Australia Week in China program running this week may not have been the most popular on the massive eight-city caravan that has seen...
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InnovationAus.com is greatly pleased and super-stoked to announce the inaugural Budget Insider 2016, a super-cool innovation policy soiree hosted with event partners Stone & Chalk and Swaab Attorneys. If...
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The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will personally unveil the long-awaited review of Australia’s cyber security capability on April 21, with a raft of measures expected to include frameworks for...
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The NSW Government’s data analytics centre – ‘the DAC’ as it has come to be known – is off to a flyer with the appointment of a new advisory board...
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Whistleblowing can sometimes be a tool for fostering innovation – at least when that innovation is in the public interest. Whistleblowing is speaking out in the public interest, most...
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Veteran Aussie tech entrepreneur Simon Hackett says we need to vastly raise the tempo of innovation policy to make venture capital work properly in this country as he wrangles...
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Re-hatched government tech research and commercialisation arm Data61 got to strut its stuff in public this week attracting over 1000 visitors to its D61+Live event at the Australian Technology...