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| Apr 24, 2026 | Microsoft: A$25 Billion Investment In Australia To Expand AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, And Workforce Skills | Microsoft has announced its largest-ever investment in Australia, committing A$25 billion (approximately USD 18 billion) in digital infrastructure, national cyber defense capability, and workforce skilling programs by the end of 2029. The a... |
| Mar 26, 2026 | The Argyle Group gains momentum following recent launch | Business advisory firm The Argyle Group is building up steam after launching at the end of last year, with Alexander Lynch recently coming on board as chief commercial officer.
Jamie Miller, a one-time McKinsey & Company consultant, est... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Avnet and AMD Launch 'AMD on Wheels' National Roadshow to Power Australia's AI and Sustainability Future | National Roadshow Brings High-Performance AI Solutions and Hands-On Innovation Across Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Adelaide
SYDNEY, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Avnet, a leading global technology distributor, is teaming up with AMD, a w... |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Tesla chair Robyn Denholm exits operating partner role at Australia's biggest VC firm | Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has moved out of her role as operating partner at Australia's biggest venture capital fund, Blackbird VC, people familiar with the situation said, while she remains a board member and adviser to the firm.
Sydney-ba... |
| Feb 25, 2025 | Tech Council of Australia launches new alliance to support CER integration | |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Australia Divided on DeepSeek Response: Industry Groups Call for Action, Minister Urges Caution | Australian authorities disagree over the response the country should take to the runaway success of the Chinese AI app DeepSeek. While some industry groups call for rapid action to support national AI innovation, the science minister urges ... |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Microsoft AI Program to Upskill ANZ Bridging Skill Gap, Boost Economy | Microsoft has announced an ambitious new initiative intended to equip 1 million people across Australia and New Zealand with essential AI skills by 2026.
The AI Skills Initiative is designed to support local workforces facing a rapidly chan... |
| Nov 17, 2024 | Australia’s Tech Investment Dilemma: A Call to Action | Australia stands at a crossroads. The nation’s businesses are urged to ramp up technology investments. A recent report from the Tech Council of Australia highlights a pressing need for change. The stakes are high. If Australia fails to incr... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Australian Businesses Urged to Invest More in Tech Adoption | A new report by the Tech Council of Australia concluded that Australia’s large, mid-sized, and start-up businesses must increase spending on technology adoption to contribute to an economy-wide push to grow overall tech investment levels an... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Australia positioned for $18.8bn AI economy by 2035 | Microsoft and Mandala Partners have unveiled a report focusing on Australia's position and potential in the burgeoning global AI economy.
The report, titled 'Australia's Opportunity in the New AI Economy', explores the country's potential t... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Australia’s ‘Right to Disconnect’ Laws Push Employers to Rethink Tech Use for Work-Life Balance | Technology could soon help IT leaders and their employers manage the workloads of tech teams and broader workforces within reasonable working hours, according to software firm Avaya.
Phil Zammit, Avaya’s vice president for Asia-Pacific and ... |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Why Australian small businesses are investing in cybersecurity training | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
Australian businesses are taking cybersecurity risks seriously, with 84% of businesses saying they feel prepared for a cyber attack according to MYOB’s recent market survey data.
And this preparatio... |
| Sep 19, 2024 | Australian tech firms urge adoption of #ITProDayStraya | IT Professionals Day, celebrated annually on the third Tuesday of September, has received a call from two Australian technology companies, Intelliworx and Crayon, to be fully embraced in Australia.
Established nine years ago by a software c... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Microsoft launches AI Academy for Australasian organisations | Microsoft has announced the broad availability of its AI Academy in Australia and New Zealand, aiming to help organisations enhance their AI capabilities and accelerate AI adoption across the workforce. The program supports both technical p... |
| Sep 6, 2024 | Neural Notes: Industry weighs in on government’s plan for AI regulation | Australian Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic. Source: SmartCompany via AAP Image/Lukas Coch article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at some of the most interesting AI news of the week. In this ed... |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Is Australia’s Public Sector Ready for a Major Cyber Security Incident? | Recent investigations into the cyber security preparedness of Australian Federal Government agencies have found gaps in the public sector’s readiness for cyber security attacks or major data breaches, contributing to a focus in 2024 on impr... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | The AI Job Surge: Australia’s Path to 200,000 New Roles by 2030 | Australia stands on the brink of an AI revolution. The Technology Council of Australia (TCA) predicts a staggering increase in AI-related jobs, projecting that the nation could host 200,000 AI tech workers by 2030. This forecast is not just... |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Australia Could Have 200,000 AI Tech Workers by 2030 | A boom in artificial intelligence has the potential to create 200,000 AI-related jobs in Australia by 2030, according to a report from the Technology Council of Australia. This presents significant opportunities for current tech workers and... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | AI High: A New Frontier in Education | Girl Geek Academy is revolutionizing education with its AI High program, aiming to bridge the gender gap in STEM fields and prepare students for the future of technology. Founded in 2014, Girl Geek Academy has been a trailblazer in promotin... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Neural Notes: Girl Geek Academy wants to bring AI to the classroom | Girl Geek Academy. Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at some of the most interesting AI news of the week. In this edition: Girl Geek Academy gets a new CEO and unveils ambit... |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Digital transactions boom as older Australians in remote regions ditch cash | Source: Adobe article-article-body
Carrying a physical bank card to get cash out of an ATM is old news, digital wallets are in.
Research from the Australian Banking Association (ABA) shows cash is no longer king, with an unprecedented numbe... |
| Jan 23, 2024 | Australian tech sector celebrates Kate Pounder’s achievements after resignation announcement | Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder. Source: supplied. article-article-body
Kate Pounder, CEO of the Tech Council of Australia (TCA), has announced her resignation. Her departure comes after a successful three-year tenure... |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Why Australia is ripe for VC | Over the past couple of decades, Australia, an island continent of 26 million that became rich by, among other things, mining natural resources, has developed into a modern powerhouse that actively works to foster a dynamic tech and startup... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Workplace Diversity in Australia: What Can Australian IT Do to Inspire Better Diversity? | Australia is in a position where it could have a highly diverse IT sector across all lines — gender, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability and age. Currently, however, it has struggled to convert its significantly diverse culture into dive... |
| Sep 19, 2023 | Australia Is Adapting Fast to a Generative AI World | Generative AI has been the talk of the business and technology world since the explosion of ChatGPT onto the market in late 2022. In Australia, there’s been a frantic whole-of-nation effort to understand the implications for business, gover... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | The Tech Council of Australia says the industry has a diversity problem and more job investment is needed | You need to bridge the gap between formal education and job description. Source: thisisengineering/Unsplash
A Tech Council of Australia representative has said the organisation wants to see more investment in skilled migration, mid-career t... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Blackbird’s latest $1B AUD fund signals maturation of Australian, New Zealand venture scene | The Australian and New Zealand startup community will see a boost in funding this year. Blackbird, a VC fund based in the two south Pacific countries, on Wednesday closed a fund at over AUD $1 billion, which is about USD $640 million, which... |
| Oct 5, 2022 | The biggest startup job board in Australia has launched | Michelle Mannering, Baja Board. Source: Melbourne Startup Photo Library
The chief operating officer of Sydney-based startup CancerAid has launched what he says the Australia’s biggest startup job board, My Startup Gig.
Rather than subjectin... |
| Aug 31, 2022 | Boost skilled migrant intake to help build the next Atlassian or Canva, Tech Council says ahead of Jobs Summit | Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Source: supplied.
Australia must significantly boost its skilled migrant intake and streamline the application system if the nation plans to prioritise its tech startups, the Tech C... |
| Jul 14, 2022 | The national focus on skills shortages is welcome, but we can’t afford to wait | Source: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.
Australia is experiencing the second most severe labour shortage in the developed world, behind only Canada.
This acute and ongoing skills crisis must urgently be addressed, and while the government has a p... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | Weekly Wrap #81: The 4 P's - People, Politics, Power, Peloton | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jan 21, 2022 | More than 25% of Atlassian’s local workforce abandoned Sydney after the launch of its remote-first policy | Atlassian’s remote-first ‘Work From Anywhere’ policy was a risky bet that paid off, the company says.
It now wants to scale up its workforce to 7,000 local employees.
Better collaboration between government and industry will be crucial to t... |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Australia’s Thriving Fintech Sector Creates Jobs, Attracts Record Funding | Australia’s fintech industry is thriving, creating thousands of new positions, attracting record investment and turning on revenue streams quickly. These players are now expanding globally, turning to markets including the UK, the US, Singa... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | Atlassian increased its workforce by 50% in the past 2 years — and its workplace policies could be the solution to the skills shortage more broadly | Atlassian's new headquarters. Image supplied.
Atlassian says doubling its workforce during lockdowns accelerated its plans to debut a ‘work from anywhere’ policy.
Amid a tech skills shortage, it says more companies should adopt the approach... |
| Dec 2, 2021 | Home improvement services were the highest-earning jobs on Airtasker, according to the company’s trends report | Airtasker reported 38% year-on-year growth in revenue in 2021, as the platform expanded the sectors offered for gig work. (Credit: iStock)
Airtasker’s annual consumer trends report reveals the highest-paid and most in-demand skills on the p... |
| Dec 2, 2021 | Kate Pounder: Startups and SMEs have a role to play in closing the tech talent gap | Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder. Source: supplied.
The talent shortage is the “single biggest challenge” facing the tech sector in Australia, and startups and small businesses have a role to play in addressing it.
Tha... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | The Aussie tech companies valued at more than $100 million, and what AirTree is looking for next | The AirTree team. Source: supplied.
A few years ago, we published the first iteration of the Australian tech companies with $100M+ valuation chart. Since then, things have only accelerated, and we’ve got the numbers to back this up.
In 2018... |
| Aug 13, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #61: Cloud and Proud; Tech Lobbyists & WCs (women capitalists) | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Tech Council says tech jobs are up despite mass layoffs | Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder. Source: supplied.
Australia has hit 78% of its 2030 tech job target of 1.2 million, according to a report released today by the Tech Council of Australia (TCA).
The report was launched... |
