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Time for more blue heads on China and tech

Addressing indigenous high-school students at the Clontarf Foundation in Townsville last year Canberra Raiders National Rugby League (NRL) coach Ricky Stuart said that when faced with adversity you can...

Gladassian boost for Sydney tech precinct

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and software giant Atlassian will announce funding details for the massive Sydney Innovation and Technology Precinct near Central train station on Thursday morning, including plans...

Education policy not fit for any age

The great English philosopher and satirist John Alexander Smith once addressed the entering class at Oxford with the advice that the sole purpose of an education is to be...

Encryption laws damage potential: Atlassian

The federal government’s highly controversial encryption laws have damaged the growth of Australia’s tech sector and could hamper the nation’s economic recovery, according to Atlassian. The Australian tech darling...

Mandatory cyber standards for private sector

There are concerns the government’s rumoured plans to mandate cybersecurity standards in the private sector could lead to SMEs being punished and difficulties around enforcement. Cybersecurity experts and the...

R&D tax inquiry re-emerges, hearing next week

A public hearing into the federal government’s controversial changes to the research and development tax incentive is set to be held next week, after the inquiry was delayed by...

Cyber security strategy needed ‘yesterday’

Australia’s new cybersecurity strategy was needed “yesterday”, with the government’s recent cyber warning stoke fear and uncertainty around the country, a number of industry experts have said. The Coalition...

Albo’s science and innovation recovery

The government’s planned cuts to research and development will hamper Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, while tax incentives for R&D should be paid out early, Labor leader...

AUSMIN and the Indo-Pacific’s digital future

The response to COVID-19 is having a transformational effect on the use of digital technologies in Australia, the United States and many other parts of the world. But the...

Unlawful robodebt bunfight heats up

How the government came to be running an unlawful scheme needs to be properly investigated, crossbench senator Rex Patrick said, as the Opposition officially backed calls for a Royal...

Apply AI to the tech capability audit

Albert Einstein famously said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” And if ever there was a need for new thinking...

Govt urged to ditch COVIDSafe for GApple

The Australian government has been urged to follow the footsteps of the UK and ditch its contact tracing app in favour of the model provided by Apple and Google,...

Cybersecurity and the Trust Imperative

The remarkable intervention of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday in the mainstream cybersecurity conversation certainly had its desired effect. Through the use of the Prime Ministerial megaphone,...

Marshall saddles up for three more years

CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall was not everyone’s first pick to lead the national science agency when he was appointed to the role in 2015. But the CSIRO board...