Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter at InnovationAus
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
Google is facing a class action from Australian businesses over the fees it charges for advertising technology, after regulators around the world started closing in on the US tech giant. Slater and Gordon on Thursday invited businesses to register for its investigation of anticompetitive practices by Google in adtech – the murky stack of technologies that allows online advertisements.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
China’s recent export restrictions on key critical minerals — an apparent response to renewed US tariffs under President Trump — are reminding the world of Beijing’s dominant grip on vital inputs for electric vehicles, semiconductors and defence applications. In this context, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s election pledge to establish a $1.2 billion national critical minerals reserve appears timely.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
NSW Liberal powerbroker Alex Hawke has been named shadow industry and innovation minister, while former Salesforce executive and presumptive new MP Giselle Kapterian has been handed the opposition reins for technology and the digital economy. The changes are among the most surprising in a new shadow ministry announced on Wednesday by new Opposition leader Sussan Ley, following a reunification with junior Coalition partner the Nationals.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
Half a dozen external procurement advisers were paid $88 million to assist the tax office with sourcing its major IT managed services, after the deals blew out more than four-fold. The cost blow out and the breaching of procurement rules in one of the adviser tenders was revealed in an external audit of the sourcing effort tabled to parliament this week. Along with conflicts of interest issues, it has marred the otherwise mostly effective $2.5 billion tech uplift at the Australian Taxation Office.
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innovationaus.com | Joseph Brookes
A higher education sector effort to align data standards across institutions and global borders will take a step forward on Thursday with the addition of Australia’s largest enterprise software company TechnologyOne. The Australian company, which provides back-end software to Australian universities and TAFEs, has signed on as a founding member of the sector’s MortarCAPS Higher Learning Data Standard (MCDS).
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RT @Innov_Aus: Corruption watchdog to investigate Robodebt referrals | @joseph_brookes #AusPol #Robodebt #NACC https://t.co/e88kzqAc6S
The current state government has made big cuts to innovation programs, but its predecessors also quietly took an axe to a $700m fund that was supposed to support R&D, commercialisation and industry growth.
Perrottet govt secretly gutted state’s ‘Future Economy Fund’ | @joseph_brookes #NSWPol #FutureEconomyFund #Innovation https://t.co/iVHnLi6zKB
RT @Innov_Aus: The staggering cost of GovERP revealed, with no end in sight | @justinrhendry #GovERP #SAP #ServicesAustralia #AusTech htt…