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Julie Bishop’s ‘hipster’ innovation hub out of fashion at Dfat


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innovationXchange, a creativity initiative launched in 2015, has been scrubbed from the department’s organisational chat and rebranded

It was one of Julie Bishop’s pet projects as foreign affairs minister: an innovation hub she described as a “gorgeous little funky, hipster, Googly, Facebooky-type place”.

But the “innovationXchange” – established in 2015 to devise new ideas to deliver an increasingly tight foreign aid budget – may well have innovated itself out of existence. It has been scrubbed from the foreign affairs department’s organisational chat and rebranded on the website.

Continue reading…innovationXchange, a creativity initiative launched in 2015, has been scrubbed from the department’s organisational chat and rebranded It was one of Julie Bishop’s pet projects as foreign affairs minister: an innovation hub she described as a “gorgeous little funky, hipster, Googly, Facebooky-type place”.But the “innovationXchange” – established in 2015 to devise new ideas to deliver an increasingly tight foreign aid budget – may well have innovated itself out of existence. It has been scrubbed from the foreign affairs department’s organisational chat and rebranded on the website. Continue reading…