Source: TechLeaders
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Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy Paul Fletcher has highlighted the positions of two women technology leaders in response to a question on the closure of the Boosting Female Founders scheme (BFF).
At the TechLeaders conference in NSW’s Hunter Valley over the weekend, SmartCompany asked Minister Fletcher about the closure of the program, which was quietly terminated by Labor earlier this year, leaving millions of dollars in allocated funds unspent.
Boosting Female Founders was originally introduced by the Coalition in 2020 to help address the huge investment gap in women-led businesses in the private sector.
And it’s a gap that still firmly exists.
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