Controversial legislation greatly expanding the scope of Medicare data-matching is set to sail through Parliament after Labor offered its full support for the bill. The Health Legislation Amendment (Data-matching)...
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New defamation laws have been given the green light to be implemented by mid-2020, but more significant changes that would see digital platforms treated like publishers have been deferred...
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In today’s world change is constant, and it’s happening all around us at ridiculous speed. Societal trends, geo-political shifts and macro-economic changes are so profound that even the reason...
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When InnovationAus.com launched in 2015, Tony Abbott was still Prime Minister and mainstream discussion about innovation policy was virtually non-existent. Industry policy as it related to the tech industry...
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The Coalition will move towards a whole-of-government technology architecture and more “agile” funding models for IT projects as part of what it calls a ‘revolutionary’ new Services Australia department,...
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China is set to launch a digital version of its currency, backed by its central bank. The new blockchain based central bank digital currency (CBDC) has the potential to...
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Vietnam is a big place. It has just passed 100 million people. It is over 1,700 km from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, further than from Melbourne to...
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China may be nominally communist, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have venture capitalists. In a very big way. They get together every year, in Beijing’s Arctic January weather,...
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LaunchVic will take a more active role in the delivery of services and focus on growing the Victorian angel investing sector as part of a new one-year strategy. This...
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The federal government has finally got the big banks to chip into its business growth fund, which is set to launch next year with more than $500 million in...
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Malaysia’s ruling Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition is in turmoil. Malaysia’s fractious political scene is not about to quieten down any time soon. Australian companies that do business in Malaysia,...
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The federal government has admitted defeat in a major legal challenge against robo-debt, conceding that a debt raised through the highly controversial program was unlawful. Victorian Legal Aid brought...
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Some of Australia’s largest institutions have called on the federal government to improve threat intelligence data-sharing to combat nation-state cyber attacks. Multiple submissions from big four banks and Australia’s...
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The Australian economy is at a “pivotal fork in the road” and the next three to five years will decide whether the nation is able to extract its share...