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Privatisation via Telstra Health?

Telstra Health has been awarded a major contract to manage the Australian National Cancer Screening Register, which involves the health records of millions of Australians. The contract has been...

Telstra CTO’s exit a familiar story

Proving that lightning does strike twice, Telstra has again lost a technology lead over an allegedly fudged CV. A report in The Australian newspaper on Friday noted that Telstra chief technology...

Can the FinTech bubble save us all?

It is a question that is doing the rounds. “Are we in a fin-tech bubble, I think we are.” At least that was the message from among a phalanx of...

Property a top issue for TechSydney

It’s hard to know what to make of the latest tech industry lobby group to be set up – Tech Sydney – but the fact that the group will...

Innovation policy missing in action

We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...

Lucy in Israel, with Aussie diamonds

Australia may never face the existential challenges of Israel, demand national service of its youth, or have a Chief Scientist with $500 million a year to blow on startups...

CSIRO looks into the crystal ball

Last week, to remarkably little fanfare, the CSIRO released a fascinating little report looking at Australia’s future. The report is called Australia 2030: Navigating our uncertain future. It is...

Amaysim race a white knuckle ride

Amaysim was launched in 2010 as an Australian MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). Like all MVNOs, it does not have its own network, but resells capacity from one of...

Landing on the SE Asia launch pad

Could it possibly get any better? The home for the fifth and final ‘Landing Pad’ under the Turnbull Government’s still nascent National Science and Innovation Agenda is a five...

NetComm surges on new M2M boom

ASX-listed NetComm Wireless has a come a long way since it was founded in Sydney in 1982 to manufacture modems. It is now a technology leader in intelligent communications...

StartupAus funding is ridiculous

For a very short while, the Innovation Department’s funding of lobbyist StartupAus was the dumbest thing to happen during the election campaign last week that was related to the tech...

An expert guide to campaign-speak

On Friday at a campaign event in Tasmania the Prime Minister, eventually, got around to talking about the AFP action over the leaks from NBN Co. InnovationAus.com isn’t primarily...

Pressure mounts on NBN’s Morrow

The re-design of the National Broadband Network carried out by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during his time as communications minister is now at the front and centre of this...

Turnbull: Give that man an onion

The sight of Malcolm Turnbull rabbiting on at a media doorstop as if he had Tony Abbott’s hand up his back was a remarkable thing to behold. He should...