Monday, June 29, 2015

The more significant gaps in Australia's innovation system

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This week I had a column published in the AFR in which I noted that what is missing in Australia's start-up funding marketplace is risk...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Will aerial cable rules plague the NBN?

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The proposal announced last week to amend the Low Impact Facilities Determination (the LIFD) to increase the size of cable used for aerial ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

RBA Governor Glenn Stevens bells the cat on infrastructure policy

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Many thanks to Bernard Keane and Glen Dyer of Crikey who neatly summarised the political message in Glenn Stevens speec h yesterday. Havin...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Rich are Getting Richer - but more equal with each other

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The BRW Rich list is out for another year. Apart from the headline that Gina Rinehart is supposed to have gone from wealth of $20 to $14 bil...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

When research isn't

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I have a weekly Google Alert on the term "Digital Economy"to keep track of what is happening in the policy space. This week I go...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Telco competition hasn't reduced prices

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Ever since the open market structure for telecommunications was adopted in 1997 in Australia, the ACCC has been required to publish an annua...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Turnbull's Triumph? Not really.

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Christmas has come early for NBN Co and the Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull. Not only have they been able to announce the rene...