Heavy regulatory burdens that come packaged with trendy progressive agendas, like gender quotas, are keeping some of the most experienced executives from joining boardrooms, warns one CEO. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the CEO in charge of an Australian publicly listed company revealed that many individuals choose to take on non-executive roles as a form…
Second Attempted Takeover of Australian Energy Giant by Green Investors Fails
One of Australia’s largest energy providers, AGL Energy, has rejected a second bid from tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy out the firm and speed up decarbonisation efforts. Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of NASDAQ-listed Atlassian, has been a vocal advocate for renewable energy development in Australia and on March 6, wrote on Twitter that he, along with…
Start-Up Scene Trumping University Sector As ‘Path of Prosperity’ for Australia: Tech Star
In response to the Australian government’s $2 billion drive to transform university research into profitable endeavours, Steve Baxter, tech investor and star of reality TV series Shark Tank, said the focus should instead be on the country’s burgeoning start-up scene rather than tertiary sector. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, in late January, announced the AU$2.2…
Australia Will Recover From Lockdowns, but at the ‘Expense of People’: Shark Tank Investor
Tech investor and star of reality TV series Shark Tank, Steve Baxter, says Australia’s economy will weather the repeated COVID-19 lockdowns, but argues that the restrictions will leave a permanent scar on communities and small businesses. Speaking to The Epoch Times, Baxter said that while economic recovery was likely, he was doubtful whether the same…
YouTube Not the Arbiter of ‘Medical Truth’: Australian Senator
An Australian senator has called YouTube’s suspension of Sky News Australia “dangerous,” saying that the platform’s previous attempts at moderating COVID-related information were ultimately wrong. Around early August, online video-sharing giant YouTube suspended the popular conservative channel from posting on its platform for one week over the alleged publication of “COVID-19 misinformation.” The tech giant…
Tech Giants ‘Willing to Burn’ First Amendment Rights: Shark Tank Entrepreneur
Prominent tech investor and star on Australia’s “Shark Tank” TV series Steve Baxter has lambasted U.S. tech giants’ for targeting and suspending social media app Parler as well as the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump. “This is pretty bleak stuff when this platform–Parler–is being held to account (by the tech giants) for the actions…
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