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Towards a more mature and nuanced tech narrative

On LinkedIn, Braden Wallake, the chief executive of the social media company HyperSocial, posted a photograph of himself crying. He had just fired two of his 17 employees. The...

Space sector must get down to earth: Main Sequence

Australian space companies need to be either “full stack” or have additional terrestrial applications for their products to attract the market’s shrinking venture capital, according to Main Sequence Ventures...

Gig Guide: Siemens loyalist to head ANZ office

A veteran of the German technology group Siemens Peter Halliday has been appointed as the new chair and chief executive officer of Siemens Australia from September 1. Mr Halliday...

Jobs and Skills: Don’t overlook the talent for research

The last section of the Jobs+Skills Summit Issues Paper argues, quite correctly, that maximising the opportunities from new, growing and strategically important industries will be critical to boosting productivity,...

‘Shameful’ grants record adds to manufacturing delay

A year after Australian manufacturers applied for large COVID-19 recovery grants worth $800 million, the official go-ahead has been given, with an internal review clearing all the previous government’s...

ASIC needs to boost its tech investment: review

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission “requires a substantial uplift in its data and technology capability” alongside a “material cultural change” to access the full benefit of any upgrade,...

Why it’s prime time for the Australian space industry

Sovereignty can mean different things to different people, but to those of us in the space and defence domain, sovereignty is about resilience. Resilience is our ability to bounce...

Generational change: From response to resilience

Prevention is better than cure: it’s a familiar idiom that expresses a simple truth yet its logic is often ignored. Sometimes the effort required now to address future natural...

Husic approves all manufacturing grants under review

With a review now complete, Industry minister Ed Husic has now approved all grants made by the former Morrison government under its Modern Manufacturing Initiative on the eve of...

Slow hand clap: ‘Urgent’ 2019 digital review finally drops

Digital transformation in the public sector is being hindered by “lingering” legacy technologies and technical debt, with agencies unable to make progress due to a funding shortfall and backward...

Robodebt fallout: Dominello backs AI watchdog

New South Wales digital minister Victor Dominello has asked the state’s information and privacy watchdogs to undertake a “scan of the AI and privacy landscape” in the wake of...