Legislation extending equity crowdfunding to private companies has been delayed again despite enjoying bipartisan support, meaning the new regime won’t come into effect until at least September, a year...
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One of Australia’s Landing Pads will have to lift off again as it searches for new digs. Austrade’s southeast asia Landing Pad in Singapore is looking for a new...
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The Australian Government has signed up to the Have I Been Pwned service to monitor its email addresses for breaches and be notified in real-time if one occurs. The...
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A motion calling on government to support strong encryption and resist any attempts to undermine this process has been passed by the Senate. Moved by the Greens and supported...
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The Australian government’s national data authority is facing “unprecedented challenges” following recent global data controversies and the commencement of the data breach notification laws, while its resources are “stretched...
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Australian startups and tech companies are likely to miss out on significant copyright reforms in a “disappointing result” for the sector. Late last week a Coalition-led senate committee gave...
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There has never been a more opportunistic time to be an Australian cattle farmer exporting to China: At least that’s what Borderless Cattle is telling the local market. The...
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ACTU chief Sally McManus has logged a claim for a big wage rise for Australian workers saying industrial relations law is a decade behind the gig economy and needs...
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Bill Ferris and David Thodey laid down the law on Australia’s needs to get off its arse and begin building some serious twenty-first century capital if it is to...
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The Victorian government has dished out nearly $3 million in grants to educational services for startup founders, the first funding round LaunchVic has unveiled in more than six months....
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There are growing calls for the federal government to standardise the way it defines a startup for its grants and support programs, after it announced a new “startup authority”...
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Whispering life into business It’s not every day someone leaves the comfort of their full-time job to start their own business, but Dr Michelle Perugini and her husband, Dr...
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One of Australia’s most successful young companies was famously born when its University age founder left his bedroom light on each night, working around the clock on his fledgling...
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Queensland’s Mackay with a population of around 85,000 has become a hub of startups and innovation focused on the area’s proximity to mining and sugar cane industries. Jarryd Townson...