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$3.5m for DTA’s digital ID charge model

A number of consultants will share in more than $3.5 million across just six months to develop a charging model for the federal government’s digital identity scheme, which will...

Science and tech at the centre of Albo’s reshuffle

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has placed science, technology and advanced manufacturing front and centre in Labor’s policy structures as a part of a significant shadow cabinet reshuffle ahead of...

ACCC spotlight turns to Google’s ad dominance

The competition watchdog is set to propose a range of legislative changes aimed at curbing Google’s display advertising dominance after handing down an interim report into advertising technology services....

Husic gets Industry and Innovation portfolio

Federal Labor’s sharpest tech sector advocate Ed Husic has been handed the shadow Industry and Innovation portfolio as part of a sweeping reshuffle of the opposition frontbench unveiled by...

On the brink: Big Tech fight escalates

Google’s incendiary threat to shut its internet search services in Australia is simply the latest expression – albeit the nuclear option – of a campaign against a proposed law...

WiseTech Global lays out an RDTI tech fix

WiseTech Global has laid out potential reforms to the research and development tax incentive to fix the scheme for software development, with the Australian tech giant labelling the current...

Summer reading is never enough: More books

I have read a lot of books in the past year. But in the rush to get our Summer Reading List into the last newsletter of 2020, I did...

A life well lived: Graeme Philipson passes away

Our friend and colleague Graeme Philipson passed away on Tuesday, never having regained consciousness after a freak accident at his home in Sydney. He was 66 years old. If...

Andrew Forrest on the road to renewables

It’s not every year the prestigious Boyer Lecture prompts the need for an ASX market disclosure document to be filed with the exchange. But that was the case with...

Aust big business opposes Big Tech code

Big business in Australia is concerned the Big Tech media bargaining code sets a “troubling precedent”, with the Business Council of Australia worried similar laws could be applied to...

‘Reshoring’ might work but needs more data

As interesting as the topic of reshoring might be to some manufacturers, its discussion in Australia relies heavily on hunches and anecdote. In March 2019, when this website asked...

Demand grows for new laws to fight misinformation

Government must “urgently” pass laws that require tech giants to provide a “live list” of the most popular COVID-19-related information shared on social media platforms in order to combat...

Rod Sims rejects tech giants’ code ‘suggestions’

Competition watchdog boss Rod Sims has knocked back Facebook and Google’s suggested “fixes” for the media bargaining code and accused the tech giants of “brinkmanship” in threatening to withdraw...

Google will pull out of Aus if code is passed

Google has joined Facebook in threatening to withdraw its services from Australia if legislation introducing a media bargaining code is passed by Parliament. In a sometimes fiery Senate inquiry...