Telstra looks offshore for bigger tech talent pool
Telstra plans to later this year launch an ‘Innovation and Capability Centre’ in Bangalore, which the telco’s CEO, Andy Penn, today described as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’.
Telstra plans to later this year launch an ‘Innovation and Capability Centre’ in Bangalore, which the telco’s CEO, Andy Penn, today described as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’.
From today, airlines are able to issue electronic boarding passes for international flights departing from Australia.
The 12-month pilot of the government’s Global Talent Scheme (GTS) visa program will begin on 1 July.
The government has launched a pilot of a new visa scheme intended to help businesses recruit people with in-demand technology skills.
Google has called on the federal government to “fix skilled migration policy,” revealing that the 2017 changes to the skilled migration visa system compelled the tech company to “revise its Australian recruitment plans.”
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has formally launched the expressions of interest (EOI) process for the first stage of its “once in a generation” overhaul of visa processing.
Vision-Box Australia has won a three-year contract to roll out facial recognition services that will allow some travellers at Australian international airports to be processed without the need to produce their passports.
The immigration department has revealed that over the last five years it has reported 18 data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commission.
Chief information officers on temporary visas are among those set to benefit from tweaks to Australia’s skilled migration regime. Under changes announced by the government on Friday, CIOs will now be eligible for four-year visas.
Labor leader Bill Shorten has pledged that if his party forms government it will establish a new ‘SMART’ — Science, Medicine, Academia, Research and Technology — visa category.
The government’s plan to overhaul Australia’s skilled migration program has alarmed an organisation representing the local ICT industry.
The government will abolish the 457 temporary visa class, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced today.
Tight US immigration laws could be closing the “brain drain” of foreign startups that defect to Silicon Valley, according to startup investors Bill Tai and Lars Rasmussen.