Policy

Last night’s Federal Budget has little risk of being remembered as an innovation budget. In fact, innovation only got a run in the context of confirming a series of measures previously announced by the Prime...

When Malcolm Turnbull requested the Governor General to prorogue Parliament to deal with a hostile Senate, he (most likely unintentionally) caused the Bill to cut the rate of the R&D Tax Incentive by 1.5%...

Last week, we alerted you to the Review of the R&D Tax Incentive (the Review) as part of the National Science And Innovation Agenda (the Agenda) and to the fact that the Review Chairs have released an...

The recent AAT decision, JLSP and Innovation Australia [2016] AATA 23 (22 January 2016) http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/AATA/2016/23.html, is the first decision on the definition of R&D since the...

We think it’s fair to say that people may have got a touch overexcited about what might have been in the Prime Minister’s recent Innovation Statement. There was talk of new funding for competitive grant...

Earlier today, the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull,  unveiled the Federal Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. Full details of the statement can be explored...

Celebrated American author, Joseph Heller, is best remembered for the towering achievement that was “Catch-22”. One of his lesser known (but highly enjoyable) reads is “Good As Gold”, the story of a...

The Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2015 Measures No. 3) Bill 2015 has appeared and re-appeared on the Senate Order of Business a number of times over the life of the current Senate, without coming to...

Parliament has survived its first week back with a new speaker and a strong focus on the calls for marriage equality. In the background, the Senate has not considered the re-tabled proposal to reduce the...