Queensland Treasurer and Deputy Premier Jackie Trad has given the state’s flagship Advance Queensland tech and innovation strategy a $105 million boost as part of her second state budget...
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Australian-based investment management firm First Digital Capital (FDC) is preparing to open its fund up to wholesale investors for the first time at the end of this month, with...
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The Digital Transformation Agency will remain an independent agency but has been moved under the remit of the new Services Australia department, a rebadged Department of Human Services. The...
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As Stuart Robert sits down in the coming days to design a strategic imitation of the Service NSW model for digital service delivery, there is an important flaw he...
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Victorian Labor MP Tim Watts, a former senior staffer to Stephen Conroy as Communications minister in the Rudd government, has been appointed shadow assistant minister for communications and cybersecurity....
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New shadow innovation minister Clare O’Neil is set to continue Labor’s focus on digital skills and human capital in the technology policy debate. Labor leader Anthony Albanese said Ms...
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NASA’s plan to launch rockets from the Northern Territory is another watershed moment for the Australian space sector, with hopes the venture will encourage the federal government to provide...
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In a bid to build out Queensland’s emerging hydrogen extraction industry, the Queensland government said it will commit $19 million to support the roll-out of its newly announced Hydrogen...
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Four days before the May 18 federal election, InnovationAus.com hosted Ed Husic at our offices in conjunction with StartupAus for a no-holds-barred question and answer session with a bunch...
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Australia-based private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) fundraising achieved record highs in 2018, with a new report by the Australian Investment Council revealing that local firms secured $30...
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Fresh from a $24 million capital raise, Internet of Things semiconductor startup Morse Micro has vowed to keep its headquarters and research and development operations in Australia, and lauded...
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It’s early days, but in the absence detail let’s call it a poor imitation that flatters to deceive. ‘Lipstick on a pig’ also comes to mind. Scott Morrison’s Services...
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Services Australia sputtered to life on Thursday, not as an artful clone of the highly successful NSW delivery agency Service NSW, but as a simply re-named Department of Human...
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Bob Hawke helped make Australia’s economy globally competitive by making the tough but necessary choice of opening it up to the world. There is no simply denying that, more...