Melbourne-based cross border payments platform Airwallex has just earned unicorn status, following a successful Series C fundraising round of US$100 million. The fintech, which is now valued at over...
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The national privacy and information regulator would get a $25 million funding boost and stronger penalties would be introduced for tech giants that oversee data breaches under a government policy...
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A showdown has been set in the Senate over the Consumer Data Right legislation, with Labor pledging to move a number of amendments after a government-led committee gave the...
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The only way to mitigate the consistent and persistent “negative externalities” of Facebook and other social media platforms is through government intervention. Self-regulation has been a disaster for the...
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Adelaide has been announced as the home of the seventh city deal that will see all three levels of governments work together over the next 10 years to grow...
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The federal government will develop a national blockchain roadmap and kick-in a further $100,000 for the study, despite its Digital Transformation Agency recently saying the new technology is at...
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The only people in Australia specifically excluded from the controversial encryption laws are the very people who rushed the legislation through on the final sitting day of 2018, our...
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A new regulatory framework for initial coin offerings proposed by federal government posed “a significant risk of fettering innovation”, according to a FinTech industry group. Government is actively considering...
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Australia’s signals intelligence agency has outlined publicly for the first time how it decides when to make a security vulnerability public, and when to keep it secret and later...
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A coalition of tech sector business leaders and industry groups have come together at the eleventh hour to voice concerns to government about its controversial new encryption laws, the...
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There has been a shocking number of research reports and reviews aimed at improving the performance of rural R&D and boosting regional innovation ecosystems more generally. If the challenges...
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CSIRO chairman and business leader David Thodey has called out Australia’s urgent need to better prepare for a volatile and uncertain future in a speech that also previewed the...
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A future NSW Labor Government said it would appoint the state’s first chief entrepreneur and establish a new unit called Enterprise NSW as part of a commitment to simplify...
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Google should be broken up to “clearly and effectively address the harm caused” by the tech behemoth, according to Australia’s biggest media company. In a submission to the Australian...