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Space industry on a promise

The federal government is expected to provide $50 million to the national space agency in this week’s budget, but one of the country’s most vocal and active space industry...

Budget wish-list: R&D tax certainty

Reform of how Australia’s R&D tax incentive scheme is administered for startups sits at the top of the Budget wish-list for two peak tech industry groups. The Australian Information...

Saul Singer on the STEM obsession

Industry policy-makers had become “too obsessed” with the importance of STEM skills to the jobs of the future and overlooked humanities at their peril, says Saul Singer, the co-author...

ASIC seeks new RegTech resources

Ahead of next week’s budget, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner John Price has suggested that in order for it to effectively regulate Australia’s emerging RegTech and FinTech...

Spooks form a view on TelcoLand

A decision whether Chinese telecommunication companies will be prevented from selling telecommunications equipment in the United States is expected soon. The Trump administration has considered using an executive order...

AgTech is ready for policy love

If Australia’s AgTech sector gets a single mention in next week’s budget, it can only signal good news, according SproutX co-founder Andrew Lai. “AgTech doesn’t feature very much at...

Entrepreneurs and new Aussie jobs

With a decade in Silicon Valley under her belt, Jennifer Zanich knows her way around startup culture, entrepreneurship and venture capital. She has recently started a role as head...

Digital identity: The time is now

Australia is on the precipice of getting digital identity right. After various attempts at one identity to rule them all with efforts such as MyGov, the rise of open...

What Jane Halton did next: Vault

As a career public servant, Jane Halton rose to become one of Australia’s most powerful Mandarins, spending more than a decade as Health secretary, before leaving government in 2016...

Gonski’s new cloud learning tools

A cloud-based student assessment tool to support teachers; a universal student identifier that tracks children through 13 years of school; and data-driven innovation from schools themselves are among the...

Ingram plots the future of cyber

Cyber awareness among Australian businesses has improved over the last two years, but it still may take the first widely publicised example of a company being pinged by data...

SA on the radar for new investors

South Australia saw a seven-fold increase in total investment funding during the 2018 March quarter, according the latest funding report from Techboard. The report showed that funding from the...

ASX blockchain details released

The Australian Stock Exchange is by its own admission standing at the bleeding edge of innovation with a blockchain-based replacement for its post trade settlement system. The organisation last...

UNSW’s killer coding future

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Princeton, and Berkeley were just some of the top universities that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) outranked in its top ten...