Why is the national research funding body "hunting spies"? My Story for InnovationAus #auspoI innovationaus.com/australian-res…

How Australia's tech-savvy COVID-19 response is leaving CALD communities behind zd.net/3jBeNBk via ZDNET & Aimee Chanthadavong

Landmark Australian rocket launch postponed. My story for InnovationAus innovationaus.com/landmark-austr…

This audit was an urgent recommendation of David Thodey review of the APS in 2019. Govt accepted it then but has delayed conducting it or confirming its format, and won't commit to releasing the results. My story for InnovationAus. innovationaus.com/committee-dema…

Uni groups are still seeking an explanation from Stuart Roberts about his research funding vetoes as backlash to his intervention grows. innovationaus.com/unis-seek-expl…

Global consulting giant PwC is assessing government grant applications as part of a near-$2 million contract with the Industry department which the public sector union has branded “outrageous and indefensible”. My story for InnovationAus: innovationaus.com/outrageous-and…

McKinsey has paid $1m in income tax in Australia in the last two financial years on total income of nearly $850m. In this time, the consulting giant won a number of lucrative pandemic response contracts from the federal govt. My story for InnovationAus: innovationaus.com/mckinsey-has-p…

AWS has been paid $626m in Australia government contracts but pays "negligable" tax here, according to a CICTAR report. Often, the federal government contracts directly with Amazon's US office rather than its local subsidiary. My story for InnovationAus: innovationaus.com/aws-with-626m-…

A big breakdown in Canberra which could signal a huge shift in what Microsoft is willing to sell to governments. innovationaus.com/microsoft-walk…

‘Did not comply with rules’: Audit office lashes entrepreneur program | Denham Sadler buff.ly/3ynUsXJ

'NITpicking' on the rise in govt funded research. Calls to scrap the test from Mehreen Faruqi and ARC Tracker in my story for InnovationAus.com innovationaus.com/broken-and-unn…

This report is about as damning as the ANAO gets and raises serious questions about the DTA's regard for procurement rules and processes. My story for InnovationAus innovationaus.com/dta-slammed-fo…

Adobe was decided as the software provider for the new myGov platform before the federal government had even devised a business case or approached the market, raising questions about a project that has now cost at least $80 million. innovationaus.com/dta-mandated-a…

The widely criticised 2019 plan to establish a national facial recognition data base is still on the table for the new govt, which is "considering how to take forward legislation". My story for InnovationAus. innovationaus.com/govt-mulls-fac…

Scoop: The govt has abandoned the whole-of-government permissions capability project. At least two years and $16.5m spent with little to show from a project hailed as the “the future for tech development across government”. #auspol innovationaus.com/permissions-ca…

DHS watered down data scientists’ advice on robodebt | Joseph Brookes The scientists took the suggested changes to their report as being “fundamentally at odds with what we found”. #AusPol #RoboDebt #DHS buff.ly/3O7x08E

An audit of the Australian Research Council's handling of foreign interference and national security issues shows it had researchers' salaries frozen and banned them from grants for years. #AusPol #Research innovationaus.com/uni-researcher…

The staggering cost of GovERP revealed, with no end in sight | Justin Hendry #GovERP #SAP #ServicesAustralia #AusTech buff.ly/3OmbCg7

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.

Corruption watchdog to investigate Robodebt referrals | Joseph Brookes #AusPol #Robodebt #NACC buff.ly/41jxAqw