The Australian government quietly passed the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 on Wednesday, but it did not go through without scrutiny altogether. Shadow minister of the digital economy...
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Australia cannot simply isolate itself from technology and innovation originating from China and the rest of Asia without potentially damaging the nation’s future economic growth prospects, according to Huawei...
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A new defence and aerospace industry development fund is to be established to help local SMEs access defence contracts both directly and through supply chain opportunities under a new...
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Government has won bipartisan support from Labor for an increase in the spending cap for the Australian research grants scheme. South Australian Labor MP Nick Champion says the Opposition...
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Gavin Slater will step down as the chief executive of the Digital Transformation Agency at end of the month. Mr Slater, a Melbournian, has had to face the challenges...
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One of the many things that the National Broadband Network has done is to finally torpedo Telstra’s grand bargain with the Australian government. Once upon a time this bargain...
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Adelaide-based startup Fleet Space Technologies is set to launch Australia’s first commercial nanosatellites this year as the local sector continues to rapidly grow. The company has secured two contracts to...
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A study has revealed that millennials are less entrepreneurial than other generations even though some the most successful people are part of that generation – think Mark Zuckerberg of...
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched legal proceedings against food delivery giant Foodora in what will be a major test case for the under-fire gig economy in Australia. The...
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While the states are gearing up for the competition to host the newly-established space agency, support for the emerging space sector has provided a rare moment of bi-partisan policy...
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The federal government’s decision to jointly fund a $200 million undersea cable linking the Solomon Islands and Australia – a move that has seen Chinese telco Huawei frozen out...
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The federal government’s decision to jointly fund a $200 million undersea cable linking the Solomon Islands and Australia – a move that has seen Chinese telco Huawei frozen out...
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Innovation and Science Australia’s 2030 Report recently proposed a ‘National Mission’ on focused on genomic research that had the ultimate aim to making Australia the “healthiest country on earth”....
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The Australian Signals Directorate is already taking heavy fire for a perception that Microsoft was not required to meet the same stringent security criteria as its local cloud services...