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Australia’s IT sector is once again disappointed at a federal budget that provides few big-ticket tech items. The IT&T sector remains nostalgic for a bygone era in which every federal budget scattered funds around in the form of industry development grants and subsidies designed to attract big-name high-tech manufacturing to …

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  1. Charles Manning

    IT is a generalised expense

    IT expenditure is in all sorts of budgets. Why expect there to be a specific IT budget any more than a specific paper clips budget?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    You're forgetting skilled migration...

    ... numbers being lifted, 457 visa turnaround reduced to 2 weeks, and a new online service allowing visa seekers to register to be cherry picked by employers.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    it's just an idea

    "Australia’s IT sector is once again disappointed at a federal budget that provides few big-ticket tech items."

    Well, OK, there are no big boondoggles or giveaways for federal IT contractors. What about the bits of the federal budget that affect the Australian IT sector's ability to remain competitive, export its products, get the skilled employees it needs...?

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