The battle between Australian states to be the destination of choice for startups and tech firms is heating up, with South Australia now having entered the fray with a...
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Melbourne-based cross border payments platform Airwallex is one of the Australian startup community’s brightest stars, having attracted an honour roll of global venture capital investment brands to its books....
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Sandy Plunkett has had several careers in the tech industry. I first met her in the very early 1990s when she was a reporter covering the technology beat for...
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York Butter Factory’s big expansion into Sydney is just the beginning of ambitious plans to build a series of innovation precincts across the country in partnership with property giant...
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NBN Co was tasked by the government with building the National Broadband Network (NBN) with the primary consideration being roll-out cost and time-to-market, irrespective of the ongoing operational and...
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Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her government’s $35 million investment in a Sydney Startup Hub in the central business district is the first of several such hubs that will...
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For Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps, the NSW government’s big reveal of the Sydney Startup Hub was the culmination of a harrowing three year journey. As the largest startup hub...
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When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015 arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative...
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Australian businesses and governments that want to exploit the value in personal data need to first exercise their “moral imagination” because tick-a-box compliance is failing. Speaking at Data Privacy...
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University of New South Wales president and vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs will deliver a keynote address at InnovationAus.com’s China Money, China Markets forum in Sydney on July 20. Prof Jacobs...
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The call from a Silicon Valley colleague a year ago led with the news his all-male venture capital firm was courting a female partner. He thought, correctly, that I...
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When we sat down two and a half years ago with a reporter we were hoping to hire and revealed a plan to launch a publication focused on public...
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There is a financial technology tsunami headed this way from China and our government, business and regulation leaders need to get ready to adapt. So says Grame Barty an...