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What the DiDi saga means for MNCs in China

Not every foreign business in China need fear the cold winds of data regulation, but multinationals that capitalise on the PRC’s vast market and R&D capacity can expect to...

Santow to lead UTS responsible tech unit

Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Ed Santow will lead a University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ‘responsible technology’ initiative focused on AI when he steps down from his role at the...

Qld govt makes equity investment in space tech

The Queensland government has made a multi-million-dollar investment in Gold Coast company Gilmour Space Technologies as part of its $61 million Series C round, the largest private equity raise...

Oracle’s public sector SaaS, secure and sovereign

A confluence of forces impacting the Australian government has created a rare opportunity for agencies to rethink their approach to delivering IT services, according to Oracle’s Canberra-based Applications Leader...

Meet our Judges: Awards for Excellence

Twenty-eight innovation ecosystem leaders from across Australia have been appointed as the independent judging crew for the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, representing a cross section of skills,...

All the signs are bad for the Growth Centres

All the signs are bad for any small hope we may have had that the six industry growth centres would be replaced by something more like the highly successful...

Southern Launch gets second site licence

Adelaide space tech Southern Launch has been granted a second launch site licence from the Commonwealth for a facility 680km west of the capital. The approval allows the company...

Accenture wins govt permissions capability contract

Irish consulting giant Accenture has reportedly been awarded the lucrative federal government contract to develop a “permissions capability” which will initially handle visa processing. It comes nearly eight months...

NDIS algorithms and King Henry VIII powers

The political repudiation of the Commonwealth’s proposed changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme by all States and Territories was far more than a routine stoush of the federation....

Gig Guide: Military mandarins in APS reshuffle

Scott Morrison has promoted three public servants with defence backgrounds to lead key agencies for the next five years, including Kathryn Campbell, the former major-general in the Australian Army...

Can a patent be granted to a machine?

There is a case quietly making its way through the Federal Court of Australia that could have profound implications for our conception of what it means to be an...

Dominello urges multinationals to ‘buddy-up’

NSW Customer Service minister Victor Dominello has urged multinational tech companies seeking access to the state’s extraordinary $2.1 billion Digital Restart Fund to “partner up” and help build local...

Govt digital ID system a ‘house of cards’

The federal government’s push for an economy wide digital identity system will leave it on the “wrong side of history”, an identity and data protection expert has warned, as...

Ben Grubb takes up editor role at InnovationAus

InnovationAus.com has appointed the highly-regarded journalist, editor and broadcaster Ben Grubb as its new Editor, charged with running day-to-day news operation of the site, building readership across the innovation...