Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....
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As the deadline for ratifying the Paris climate accord arrives today (Nov. 4) with a dull thud for a government that has – 11 months later – singularly failed...
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The Australian Information Industry Association has a new chair, elected at its annual general meeting in Brisbane on Thursday 3 November. He is John Paitaridis, universally known as JP,...
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Given the sheer size of the Chinese market and the pointed focus on innovation and technology in serial government announcements in recent years, it had to happen sometime. Now...
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Just over half the world’s banking customers now interacting directly with FinTech companies, according to a new report from consultancy Capgemini. The figure is a little lower in Australia,...
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Despite a report damning Commonwealth government agencies with having poor cyber security awareness, the Federal government will not move to compel agencies to fix their online security culture. A...
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The New South Wales Government is in serious talks with the Commonwealth to have its MyServiceNSW identity management infrastructure co-opted by the Australian Government. The move would allow ServiceNSW’s...
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Innovation and technology will be used as the hooks for Sydney University to launch its first research centre in China – indeed its first facility of any kind –...
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Tectonic plates are shifting inside Canberra’s ICT bureaucracy as the new Digital Transformation Agency ingests large chunks of the Finance Department and metamorphoses into a tech super agency. The...
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Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...
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The government has commenced a public review of telecommunications consumer representation, and research on telecom-related issues being carried out and funded under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997....
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InnovationAus.com is proud to announce Queensland Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy has joined a stellar line-up of keynote speakers at the Sydney instalment of Open Opportunity...
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If it was ever possible to conduct a reasonable discussion about the National Broadband Network without getting attacked by ideologues, those days are long past. Debate on broadband issues...
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The old investment banker in Malcolm Turnbull would have been secretly chuffed at the recipient of this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation. Mr Turnbull had a glittering career...