The senior public servant who coordinated the delivery of the Malcolm Turnbull whole of government innovation strategy, Heather Smith, has been appointed as the new secretary of the Department...
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Anyone working in the information technology and innovation sectors in Australia should be able to look back on 2015 as the year when everything began to change. At least...
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Quite unexpectedly, Malcolm Turnbull made a quick dash to Tokyo last week for a one day visit to see his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe: his first visit to North Asia....
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The Victorian Government must surely be comfortable front-runners in the competition between states to host the Commonwealth’s newly-announced $30 million Cyber Security Growth Centre. It remains a weird and not...
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The $75 million in additional spending for the Data61 unit of the CSIRO, announced by the Prime Minister this month, is not a re-instatement of the original NICTA funding,...
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The Turnbull Government has taken its first cautious steps toward an overdue reformation of tech procurement practices, with opportunities creaking open for local SME’s and a new model for...
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When Malcolm Turnbull was releasing his Innovation and Science Agenda your correspondent was attending the annual conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists. One paper in particular seemed...
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The ever-flourishing Fintech scene is beginning to see a shift away from predominantly disruptive technology companies, to more enabling technology companies – those who act as service providers to...
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The thing about giant policy announcements is that they invariably generate as many questions as they answer. This is especially the case when the policy is delivered by the...
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Providing open access to government data can impact national economies to the tune of 2 per cent of GDP, and providing data access should be viewed not as a...
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Education ministers have endorsed a national approach to improving both the teaching and take-up of science, technology, engineering and maths subjects at Australian schools. The commitment is more philosophical...
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InnovationAus.com recently posed the question “Does innovation need connectivity?” Leigh Sales on ABC TVs 7:30 program had a crack at asking Prime Minister Turnbull a version of that same...
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With the much anticipated announcement of the Innovation Statement in Canberra on Monday, it’s clear Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants to drive Australia into unprecedented innovation territory, now popularly...
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This week it’s all been about ‘innovation’. It is simply not possible to overestimate the importance of the Australian National Innovation and Science Agenda. It’s a big, big step...