Despite the relatively small size of Western Australia’s tech market, many locally founded startups are choosing to scale their businesses from the state, as the local innovation ecosystem continues...
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Public sector stalwart David Hazlehurst, who set up the Digital Transformation Office as interim CEO in 2015 and steered the team of bureaucrats that reviewed the myGov platform plast...
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Recent research shows that investment in Australian startups fell by 30 per cent in 2022 on the previous year. That’s substantially less than the global decline of 35 per...
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Rising urban populations inevitably lead to increased waste production, exploitation of natural resources and reduced quality of life. Proponents of smart cities say the answer lies in the circular...
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The tech sector has hailed the Albanese government’s migration system overhaul as a big win for innovative firms because it will adopt its plan to uncouple visas from occupation...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has extended its whole-of-government sourcing deal with global tech giant Oracle, capping off a year in which the value of the arrangement grew almost $100...
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Breakthrough Victoria has invested $2 million in Cyban, a Melbourne-based medtech startup pioneering a way to monitor brain oxygen levels without invasive surgery. The investment through the state’s $2...
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Highly skilled migrants that have been waiting months for visas in areas like cybersecurity and science research will have an outcome within a week under the federal government’s ambitious...
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The world’s first AI regulatory regime has moved closer to reality following provisional agreement on draft legislation between the European Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators, while the wait...
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The Albanese government has shown a clear commitment to uplift Australia’s technology capability, but does it have a minister willing and able to lead a coordinated national effort? Siloed...
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The New South Wales government’s ambitious digital identity scheme needs legislated guardrails because of the high-risk facial recognition technologies it relies on, experts have warned. Researchers at the UTS...
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“A problem well defined is a problem half-solved” is a wise quip attributed to Charles Kettering, the head of research at General Motors nearly a century ago. “Magical thinking”...
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Esteemed innovation policy expert and University of Technology Sydney special innovation advisor Emeritus Professor Roy Green has been appointed to the board of national science agency CSIRO. Professor Green,...
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Amazon, Apple, Google and other Big Tech companies face the prospect of an EU-style ex ante digital competition regime in Australia after the federal government agreed to progress work...