Stone & Chalk has finally unveiled its long-planned expansion into Melbourne, and it is doing it without the support of the Victorian government. Stone & Chalk’s Melbourne operation will...
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The Australian game development sector has renewed its push to be recognised as a serious industry deserving of support, despite losing its most vocal parliamentary supporter following Scott Ludlam’s...
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The University of New South Wales is about to snap its tech commercialisation partnership with China into high gear which could see its Sino deal flow hit the ‘billions’...
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The Turnbull government has announced plans for legislation to compel tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google to unscramble the encrypted communications increasingly used by terrorists and...
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The battle between Australian states to be the destination of choice for startups and tech firms is heating up, with South Australia now having entered the fray with a...
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Melbourne-based cross border payments platform Airwallex is one of the Australian startup community’s brightest stars, having attracted an honour roll of global venture capital investment brands to its books....
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Sandy Plunkett has had several careers in the tech industry. I first met her in the very early 1990s when she was a reporter covering the technology beat for...
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The largest survey of the Australian startup ecosystem has launched for another year, with an expanded remit to act as a matchmaker between tech companies and supporters thanks to...
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York Butter Factory’s big expansion into Sydney is just the beginning of ambitious plans to build a series of innovation precincts across the country in partnership with property giant...
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NBN Co was tasked by the government with building the National Broadband Network (NBN) with the primary consideration being roll-out cost and time-to-market, irrespective of the ongoing operational and...
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Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her government’s $35 million investment in a Sydney Startup Hub in the central business district is the first of several such hubs that will...
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For Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps, the NSW government’s big reveal of the Sydney Startup Hub was the culmination of a harrowing three year journey. As the largest startup hub...
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When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015 arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative...