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500 Startups is a shocking model

When 500 Startups founder Dave McClure visited Melbourne last month as a guest of the Victorian government he had already been stood down from the “day-to-day operations” of the...

Martin O’Malley on cities and data

Martin O’Malley is a former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of the US state of Maryland. He was also a candidate in the 2016 presidential nomination race for the...

Tracking output, not just inputs

It’s possible I’ve guzzled too much kool-aid – or maybe fallen irretrievably into geekdom – but I found the most interesting thing about the NSW Budget last week was the...

FinTech adoption at a tipping point

Australian FinTech companies have reached a collective tipping point and are on the verge of enjoying mainstream adoption, a new report has found. The EY FinTech Adoption Index 2017...

$29m funding for CRC projects

The Federal Government has handed out nearly $29 million to a range of business-research collaborations as part of its Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program in the Commonwealth’s ongoing...

Melbourne’s startup action plan

The City of Melbourne has released its plan to grow and nurture the local startup community, nearly a year to the day since its crosstown rival unveiled a similar...

Taylor’s data sharing taskforce

The federal government has formed a taskforce to wrangle its response to the Productivity Commission’s report on data use which will investigate privacy settings and whether we are getting...

An indispensable part of ecosystem

Advanced manufacturing has turned a corner in Australia and is an “indispensable part” of the innovation ecosystem, federal industry, innovation and science minister Arthur Sinodinos said. Speaking at the...

Calling time on robo-debt scheme

The Federal Government’s highly controversial robo-debt recovery system is a “fundamentally broken program” that has had a “profoundly negative impact on the lives of thousands of Australians”, a Senate...

Sit up and take notice: Qld startups

The Palaszczuk Government is leaving nothing to chance in its efforts to make Queensland home to the most attractive and productive startup and innovation ecosystems in the country. Through...

Manufacturing is not lost: Carr

Veteran Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr went full polemic on the advantages of Australia retaining its manufacturing capability in a speech this week, hitting out at the free market...

All quiet on the Vic ICT front

The Victorian government says its ICT Strategy is still a core focus despite remaining mostly silent on its progress and implementation since its launch more than a year ago....

New conduct code for data sharing

Data Governance Australia has launched a draft code of practice regarding data collection and use. It hopes this will dovetail with the Feds’ yet-to-be-released response to the Productivity Commission’s...

NSW Budget: We’re rolling in it

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet’s first budget has revealed a set of books in embarrassingly rude health, confirming a surplus for the current financial year of $4.5 billion,...