The Australian startup ecosystem has enjoyed rapid growth and development in the last year, but is still “young and relatively immature” on the world stage, according to the StartupAus...
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The board member who served as acting chair of LaunchVic for most of this year has quietly resigned from the $60 million government body, the ninth director to depart...
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UNSW Canberra has successfully launched its first miniature satellite into orbit and unveiled a new facility to develop space missions locally. The launch is a major milestone for the...
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Australia is in the midst of a cyber skills shortage, with available positions far outstripping the numbers of people who can fill them. The continuing debate around 457 visas...
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Australia Post will start offering a biometric, face-recognition component to its Digital iD service in the next couple of weeks, before ramping up marketing of the service from February....
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If the federal government’s Digital Marketplace was supposed to provide windfall gains to smaller local businesses by making it easier to win Commonwealth contracts, then it has disappointed. More...
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While official numbers are still being tallied following the Queensland state election over the weekend, it’s confirmed that Minister for Innovation Leeanne Enoch kept her seat in the electorate...
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He won’t thank me for saying so, but Freelancer.com chief executive Matt Barrie seems remarkably chill. He has a view of the mainstream Australian economy that suggests we’re all...
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The government will next year force banking, energy and telco companies to provide digital data to consumers in a scheme that will later include government-funded sectors and agencies. Legislation...
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South Australia is to get a new game developers co-working space in Adelaide courtesy of a $2 million state government grant to Canberra-based gaming sector incubation specialist Game Plus....
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Nuclear facility inspectors wary of getting a bit of glow on after dark have help on the way as researchers delve into using AI-assisted robots to do the radiation...
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There is one week to go before the curtain goes up on StartCon, Australia’s largest and most important conference and expo aimed at the ecosystem of entrepreneurs and investors,...
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The rise of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and bring-your-own-app (BYOA) is causing a fundamental shift in the way we think about corporate security, said Gil Kirkpatrick, chief technical officer at identity...
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Fifty-two city councils across the country have been handed a cut of $28.5 million for new projects under round one of the federal government’s $50 million Smart Cities and...