Cloud integration company Maestrano is one of the success stories of Australian tech over the last few years. Its founders want to keep it in Australia as it grows,...
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Assistant Minister for Science Karen Andrews says there should be a discussion in Australia about nuclear power in relation to the nation’s energy requirements for the future. A couple...
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As if anyone needed reminding that we are in a global competition to attract the best and brightest to work in Australia, the world’s most successful startup ecosystem outside...
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The federal government has transferred an initial $1.1 billion to the new Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) and plans to start distributing some of that cash to boost funding...
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The appointment of Alan Finkel as Australia’s next Chief Scientist poses a whole new array of questions about government policy and science. The good news though is that at...
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It’s long been said that ‘government IT’ and ‘digital government’ are not the same thing. They are, of course, very different. It might seem like a simple enough distinction now...
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The Prime Minister has clearly got the man he wanted as the nation’s new Chief Scientist with the appointment of Dr Alan Finkel, who can claim not only a...
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Digital transformation for both government and business is not negotiable, according to newly-appointed Communications Minister Mitch Fifield. In his opening keynote address to the Telstra Digital Summit in Sydney,...
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The NSW Department of Transport probably owes the Prime Minister a case of beer for all the free publicity he has been giving about its public transport apps. It...
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In all the hoo-ha over the opaque (and problematic Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal between 12 countries), a rather sizeable nugget of good news for Australia, and particularly its...
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Software giant Microsoft has signed a new cloud services agreement with the New South Wales Government expected to be worth in excess of $40 million a year. The deal...
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NSW Premier Mike Baird has earmarked Sydney’s most coveted harbour-front development site as a technology sector hub, with the aim of attracting Tier One tech industry multinationals, as well...
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A biologist from the Australian National University has been awarded the 2015 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, for work on plant biophysics models that will determine which trees grow...
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Yesterday I took a walk down memory lane. Enterprise software company BMC is holding its annual Australian user conference in Sydney, and I was able to catch up with...