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The Asian giant is the source of significant numbers of migrants and its burgeoning economy offers opportunities for investment.

As AGM season kicks off, the BOSS index of the country’s most influential board members reveals the era of the all-dominating chairman may be coming to an end.

Completion is expected to occur within the next six weeks.

The Cairns Post

Telstra has acquired Versent, a local tech consultancy that specialises in Amazon's cloud services for $267.5 million . The deal announced Wednesday will see the telco take full ownership in a bid to build out its Telstra Purple tech services business. Telstra also flagged its network applications and services business will benefit from the acquisition, that it expects to close within six weeks.

The telco is always hard to beat when it wants something. This time it is cloud consulting business Versent, which has 500 employees.

The ACMA and TIO are both unhappy about the number of, and time taken to handle, telco complaints. But the number is dwindling, at least.

Townsville Bulletin

Third-quarters of complaints related to internet services.

Analysts say the deal gives Telstra access to a workforce with expertise in highly sought after areas of cloud, security, digital and data services.