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CSIRO silent on drug testing

The CSIRO’s involvement with the government’s drug testing of welfare recipients is still up in the air as new documents reveal the organisation has still not signed a contract...

The fifth domain: Brown on Cyber

Retired US Navy Rear-Admiral Mike Brown has spent a lot of time grappling with Cyber as the fifth domain of warfare, and as a pioneer in developing only operational...

An upgrade to the Great Firewall?

China has continued to step up efforts to censor the internet and all things digital with promises to block the virtual private networks that enable users to jump over...

$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...

No end for ATO tech nightmare

Yet another IT failure at the Australian Taxation Office has given the Opposition more ammunition to attack the government’s much-maligned history of digital transformation. During peak tax return time,...

DTA cranks digital skills program

The Digital Transformation Agency will recruit and place 250 new entry-level digital staff across federal departments and agencies over the next year as part of a drive to improve...

Anna Bligh on open bank data

An open data regime is “just the beginning” of the wave of disruption set to hit Australian banks and open up opportunities for smaller FinTech players, Australian Bankers’ Association...

A new kind of Aussie business

Celebrated Australian entrepreneur Jessica Wilson is spending a large amount of her time in Shanghai these days, and is even considering winding down the Western-facing side of her Stashd fashion platform...

Sydney boost for quantum effort

Sydney is ratcheting up its efforts to become a significant player in the nascent quantum economy. The University of Sydney and UNSW both have major quantum computing research initiatives...

Hilsberg on scale: China is calling

Chinese women rock as business managers, even white guys can make money in China and the steepness of the growth ramps there can help cover up a lot of...

Stone & Chalk: We love Melbourne

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...

Game developers press for change

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...

UNSW carries a new China torch

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’...

Govt is right to target OTT comms

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...