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Thursday, 27 March 2025 12:27

Anti Scam Investment Much Needed

GUEST OPINION:  Scam operations are only getting more sophisticated, and we need to fight against it.

Published in Guest Opinion

Executive employment in Australia fell a further 3 per cent in February to its lowest point in the past five years, according to a new report.

Published in Recruitment
  • New definition of Australian business will help government accurately direct policies involving government procurement.
  • Updated guidance on Broader Economic Benefits in Procurement considerations will help Government better understand the positive economic impacts generated from government expenditures with industry.

COMPANY NEWS: The Sovereign Australian Prime Alliance (SAPA) congratulates the Albanese Government on its announcement of much needed reforms to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules to define an Australian business, in the context of the Commonwealth procurement framework as:

a. “a business, including any parent business, that:
     i   has 50% or more Australian ownership or is principally traded on an Australian equities market; and
     i i is an Australian resident for tax purposes; and
b. is a business that has its principal place of business in Australia.”

Published in Company news

COMPANY NEWS:  Commpete has welcomed the Australian Government’s decision this week to invest $3BN to upgrade fibre connections, but cautioned on the ambitious timeline and budget, and danger of missing out on alternative technologies as they advance.

Published in Guest Opinion

COMPANY NEWS:

Key highlights: 

  • Atturra Limited unaudited FY24 revenue to exceed $240m, up 35% on the prior corresponding period (pcp)
  • Strong end to 2HFY24 with Underlying EBITDA for the full year of $25m to $26m, up 19% on pcp which is in line with guidance of 25m+
  • Over 40 new federal government contracts signed across multiple departments and agencies including Departments of Defence, Home Affairs, Finance, and Treasury, as well as the Australian Signals Directorate, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and Australian Financial Security Authority showing confidence in Atturra’s sovereign capabilities. Although individually not material to the overall FY24 result, the combined contracts noted have contributed to the aggregate FY24 performance outlined above.  
  • Continuing to track well with contracts in the education, mining and resources and local government sectors. Atturra is expecting to continue strong revenue growth in FY25 whilst maintaining target underlying EBITDA.
  • Continued success in integrating acquisitions to be Australia’s leading sovereign end to end IT services and advisory businesses.
  • 20%+ growth in revenue for FY25 whilst maintaining underlying EBITDA of 10.5%
Published in Company news
Saturday, 22 June 2024 15:18

MGA Thermal receives funding boost from ARENA

ARENA’s increased backing will support the rectification of MGA Thermal’s demonstration unit as it heads towards commercial deployment

COMPANY NEWS: Australian clean energy company, MGA Thermal, has received a further $2.48 million, tripling the project backing from the Federal Government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Published in Energy
Friday, 17 May 2024 10:16

Federal Budget commentary from Cradlepoint

GUEST OPINION:  Nathan McGregor, Senior Vice President Asia Pacific, at Cradlepoint has written the below in response to the Federal Government announcing that there will be a surge in spending on the Better Connectivity Program from an estimated $102 million in the current financial year to $228 million next financial year.

Published in Guest Opinion

Secure document storage and records lifecycle solutions provider ZircoDATA has been hit by the Black Basta ransomware gang, with the company saying it had noticed unauthorised access of its servers on 28 February.

Published in Security

FinTech Australia is calling on the Federal Government to address the challenging capital raising environment for startups and renew its support for Austrade’s effort to promote our local sector abroad.

Published in Strategy

The Federal Government’s announcement that it will move to strengthen Australia’s merger laws, bringing Australia into line with most other developed economies, will benefit Australian consumers and businesses of all sizes, as well as the wider economy, according to the head of the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Published in Government Tech Policy

World Backup Day should serve as a timely reminder to Australian businesses about their responsibility to protect customer data, according to global cloud storage company Wasabi Technologies.

Published in Security

The Federal Government has allocated a $3 million grant to researchers to support a world-first IVF study on how whole genome sequencing can be used to achieve better patient outcomes with IVF medications.

Published in Health
Wednesday, 29 November 2023 09:50

Optus outage cripples federal comms department staff

A government submission that sought to explain the impact of the Optus outage has revealed two out of three federal communications department staff with Optus mobiles could not dial the Triple Zero on the morning of the Optus outage.

Published in Technology Regulation

COMPANY NEWS: As organisations continue to migrate data to the cloud, where and how data is handled is becoming an important consideration. In response to growing demand, WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) is introducing the option for its Cloud Protection for Salesforce customers in Australia and Singapore to select where their data is processed. The trusted, natively integrated solution prevents attacks via files and URLs uploaded to Salesforce Clouds.

Published in Company news

Hybrid multicloud computing provider Nutanix has appointed Shree Balachandran to the newly created position of Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) Cloud Economist.

Published in People Moves

Harry is a 26-year-old Army veteran who was a drone pilot in his military life. Today, he’s managing mission-critical software systems for a major government agency.

Published in Guest Opinion

Wholesale broadband provider NBN Co has raised $850 million from its latest Australian green bond issuance in the domestic debt capital markets, which will be allocated to its sustainability projects and fibre-to-the-node to fibre-to-the-premises network upgrade program.

Published in Telecoms & NBN

Cloud robotics company Cloud Ground Control has announced a new strategic partnership with Australia’s peak body for the robotics sector, Robotics Australia Group.

Published in Deals

Two-thirds of Australian Federal Government portfolios have implemented Castlepoint’s category-defining AI, Castlepoint has claimed.

Published in Government Tech

Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Ted O’Brien has called on the Federal Government to urgently review the energy security implications of its 82% renewables target.

Published in Energy

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