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StartupVic seeks new chief advocate

Melbourne’s entrepreneur advocacy body Startup Victoria is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer after Georgie Beattie left the organisation to start a new role as executive...

Alan Noble exits Google Australia

Long-time Google Australia director of engineering Alan Noble is to leave the company after more than a decade, and plans to focus on the expansion of his Adelaide-based ocean...

Husic: Mandarins are in the way

The battle inside the federal public service between forces warding off serious digital transformation and those who want to deliver 21st century systems must end, says Labor’s digital economy...

Science fights for hearts and minds

It was the annual Science Meets Parliament confab in Canberra last week. Cool … If you like that sort of thing. It was also the week Australia’s Prime Minister...

Fed Square Apple shutdown fails

A Greens motion to revoke planning amendments for Apple’s highly controversial store at Federation Square has been resoundingly defeated in the Victorian Parliament. The motion was brought forward by...

Breach scheme adds cyber focus

Australia’s mandatory data breach notification scheme has officially come into effect as the federal government looks to further ramp up its focus on cyber security. The data breach notification...

EFA warns on new breach laws

Australia’s new mandatory data breach notification scheme has been tentatively welcomed by digital rights advocates, while new research has found many businesses are not ready or even aware of...

River City lands BOQ for startups

Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has signed a two-year corporate partnership with Brisbane’s River City Labs (RCL) which it says is part of next steps to prepare for the federal...

Karen Borg exits Jobs for NSW

Barely a week after presiding over the official opening of the $35 million Sydney Startup Hub, the inaugural Jobs for NSW chief executive officer Karen Borg has left the...

‘Aussie Charlotte’ a secret weapon

Big investment decisions don’t get made in a vacuum. They are the end-point of targeted work by powerful interests over a period of time. Very often there is an...

500 Startups was a wake-up call

The 500 Startups scandal in Victoria appears to have jolted the country’s venture capital community into acknowledging the need for more female involvement in the tech and innovation ecosystem....

Big winners in new Aussie space

South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has won a Dutch government grant to fast-track its “world-first” Internet of Things network for farms around the world, while Queensland rocket company...

Perrottet targets new productivity

The NSW government has announced it will establish its own Productivity Commission to spearhead policy reforms to make it easier to do business in the state, including a review...

Crowdfund laws frozen in time

Much-anticipated reforms extending equity crowdfunding to private companies have yet to move through the Parliament, nearly six months after the bills were first introduced. The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding...