Australian businesses are being held back by the country’s tech skills shortage, with many businesses now looking to skilled migration and contract workers to lift pressure on their workforce needs, according to one recruitment firm.

Listed Australian data centre provider NextDC has introduced a new internal company policy that offers paid leave to victims of domestic violence, as part of its support for the White Ribbon Australia program to stop men’s violence against women.

Losses continue to mount in the rollout of Australia’s national broadband network, with an after tax loss of $4780 million for the 2018 financial year, still two years out from scheduled completion in 2020.