Tag: Joe Hockey

Joe inks new NASA space treaty

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The federal government has reaffirmed a bilateral space agreement with NASA just weeks after it announced it would be creating a national space agency. The Space Tracking Treaty was...

Tech sector needs a cold shower

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Our new Prime Minister is being publicly attacked by sections of the technology sector for postponing a trade delegation to Silicon Valley that was due to start just 10...

US trip on back burner for new PM

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In what we now know were the dying days of the Abbott government, the former Prime Minister’s all powerful chief of staff Peta Credlin, was laying plans to try...

Turnbull’s an old China hand

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In May 2011, in his final months as Australia’s Ambassador to China, Geoff Raby –one of Australia’ most outspoken diplomats in recent years – delivered the withering put down...

PC to investigate Aust patent laws

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The Productivity Commission has been instructed to undertake an investigation into Australia’s intellectual property arrangements, including their effect on investment, competition, trade, innovation, and consumer welfare. The Treasurer Joe...

Joe Hockey loves small business

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Joe Hockey continues to conflate the notional idea of what a small business is and what a startup company is. This is not a sackable offense for a Treasurer,...

Super dreams – where’s the money?

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It is surely a policy failure that Australia is home to one of the world’s largest superannuation pools and yet struggles to fund its own home-grown innovators. This failure...

Budget Notes: Buckets of blood

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Listening to the shrieks and squeals of tech sector commentators over the past few weeks, you’d be forgiven for thinking Joe Hockey’s first budget contained nothing for the industry....