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Innovation program is on track

The Department of Industry’s Office of the Chief Economist has released a series of reports on the government industry support programs, delivering a largely favorable assessment of the positive...

Home Affairs to ‘clarify’ encryption

Following months of industry backlash, the Department of Home Affairs has acknowledged the perception of Australia’s anti-encryption laws has had “material impact” on the Australian market and the ability...

Encryption hurts chances for growth

There is a broad consensus across Australia’s tech industry that the country’s encryption laws have hurt the sector’s ability to export and innovate, according to submissions to a Parliamentary...

Qld FibreCo picks up NBN slack

The Queensland government, together with Powerlink Queensland and Energy Queensland, have jointly launched FibreCo Queensland to provide internet connectivity to regional Queensland at significantly lower prices. FibreCo Queensland will...

CSIRO’s Data61 and the sense of urgency

The CSIRO’s specialist business unit Data61 celebrated its third birthday this week. It is worth noting the milestone. The organisation is structurally very different from its early days, and...

Pitch to pilot, light and shade

The New South Wales government’s tech SME and startup program Pitch to Pilot has prompted some strangely mixed reviews. None of the companies interviewed by InnovationAus.com got any business...

ACCC platforms report completed

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) handed the long-awaited final report from its Digital Platforms Inquiry to the federal government over the weekend, but it is unclear of...

Business has room to improve

The NSW Innovation and Productivity Council (IPC) released a first-time report on the economic impact that different businesses sizes have when measured against key indicators like numbers of jobs...

Cyber startups hit the world stage

Australian cybersecurity startups Cydarm and SecureStack have been named as finalists of the RSA Conference (RSAC) Asia Pacific and Japan Launch Pad. The companies will head to Singapore in...

AWS gets the red carpet treatment

The Australian Government rolled out a red carpet this week for hyper-scale cloud platform provider Amazon Web Services, helpfully launching a standardised whole-of-government agreement to make it easier to...

Melissa Price on Defence tech

Freshly-minted Defence Industry minister Melissa Price has recommitted government to maximising opportunities for local SMEs in Defence procurement, and to focus on harnessing the innovation potential of the Australian...

Stone & Chalk’s $8m SA payday

South Australia will pay the Sydney-headquartered FinTech incubator and co-working space Stone and Chalk nearly $8 million over three years to manage a space industry-focused incubator at Adelaide’s Lot...

State space race gathers pace

The Queensland government has ramped up efforts to snag a bigger slice of Australia’s nascent space sector, committing to the development of a Queensland Space Strategy to address space...

Qld Sqhub targets creative startups

The Queensland government’s red carpet roll-out for game developers, designers, production companies and other creative startups has gathered momentum with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk naming a second cohort of ten...