Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

Clare O’Neill on R&D tax incentive

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Industry policy is at its lowest ebb in years and federal Labor is urging government to re-examine the Turnbull-era Innovation and Science Australia 2030 report for its recommendations on...

$50m cut to key NISA initiatives

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The federal government has slashed $50 million from two of its “flagship” initiatives launched as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda. The 2019-20 budget found “efficiencies” of...

Tackling Rudd’s NBN revisionism

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Kevin Rudd’s The PM Years is an interesting exercise in revisionism that has fuelled great interest in his assertion that Murdoch attacked the NBN for commercial reasons. Before we...

Year in review: Back-end 2018

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Following InnovationAus.com’s recap of the first six months of the year, it’s clear that 2018 started with a bang. It’s now time to look at what has been happening...

Innovation as better cooperation

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It seems Australia’s experiment at being a world leader at ‘innovation’ is over, with the abrupt departure of its champion, Malcolm Turnbull. The then prime minister made headlines with...

Digital standards are key: ASEAN

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Politicians, regulators and industry heavyweights from across south-east Asia converged on Sydney this week to foster digital trade in the region. The Digital Trade Standards Workshop is the culmination...

‘Highly disruptive’: Turnbull’s exit

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A new Prime Minister and a significantly different Cabinet would be “highly disruptive” to the government’s tech and innovation-focused agenda and could delay important reforms currently in the works,...

ScoMo: a very FinTech PM

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Treasurer and enthusiastic FinTech advocate Scott Morrison is Australia’s new Prime Minister after winning the Liberal Party leadership ballot on Friday afternoon. Mr Morrison won the leadership ballot 45...

Turnbull: Heavy lies the crown

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Australia is 27 years into the longest period of continuous economic growth in the history human kind – as measured against an arcane set of dusty metrics – and...