Australia
SenSen receives highest ever quarterly cash receipts as it moves towards being cashflow positive and profitable in FY21
SenSen Networks Ltd (ASX:SNS) recorded two of its best-ever cash flow quarters in the 2020 financial year and is robustly moving towards being cashflow positive and profitable in FY21 as it continues to see strong software sales despite COVID-19.
In the June quarter, the company received its highest ever quarterly cash receipts of A$1.43 million from customers, which represented around a 150% increase on the 2019 corresponding quarter and around 90%on the March 2020 quarter.
Also in the quarter, SenSen received cash amounting to about A$472,000 from research & development tax credits and believes it is likely to receive around A$1.6 million from the Australian Taxation Office in the current half as R&D tax incentive payment and FY20 lodgements.
The company highlighted its execution capabilities, noting that there were no interruptions or delays to customer deliveries and support due to COVID-19 despite the fact that 90% of its staff were working remotely.
Further, SenSen did not lo..

SenSen Networks Ltd (ASX:SNS) recorded two of its best-ever cash flow quarters in the 2020 financial year and is robustly moving towards being cashflow positive and profitable in FY21 as it continues to see strong software sales despite COVID-19.
In the June quarter, the company received its highest ever quarterly cash receipts of A$1.43 million from customers, which represented around a 150% increase on the 2019 corresponding quarter and around 90%on the March 2020 quarter.
Also in the quarter, SenSen received cash amounting to about A$472,000 from research & development tax credits and believes it is likely to receive around A$1.6 million from the Australian Taxation Office in the current half as R&D tax incentive payment and FY20 lodgements.
The company highlighted its execution capabilities, noting that there were no interruptions or delays to customer deliveries and support due to COVID-19 despite the fact that 90% of its staff were working remotely.
Further, SenSen did not lose any of its customers in the last two years and many of its existing customers have ordered more software and services from the company.
June quarter financial update
In the June quarter, the company improved its cash position and had around A$2.48 million at June 30, up from around A$127,000 at the March quarter-end and with no material COVID-19 related government support.
The company said its annual recurring revenue profile continued to grow strongly during the quarter.
With confirmed contracted revenues of around A$5.6 million (annual recurring revenue of around A$3.5 million), SenSen reaffirmed its March 2020 quarter guidance that it is likely to be profitable and cashflow positive in the financial year 2021.
Any additional contract wins or revenue from other sources will increase SenSens profitability in the financial year 2021.
SenSen attributed its robust performance in the quarter to strong software sales from its globally diversified customer base despite COVID-19 impacting other areas of the economy.
Further, the company received additional payments from Chicago Parking Meters towards the trial of its Gemineye solution after the successful completion of earlier trials involving vehicle-mounted cameras systems.
Key management personnel
SenSen's non-executive director Heather Scheibenstock has taken on an executive position as executive director, Retail & Leisure division, with effect from July 6, 2020.
In this role, she is responsible for providing strategic, financial and operational leadership for division and guiding corporate governance and organisational development for the entire organisation.
Scheibenstock will also closely coordinate and work with the board and senior leadership team to design and implement business strategies, plans and procedures to drive revenue and EBITDA growth in the division.
In the March quarterly report, the company said its board of directors had taken on additional workload after some roles were made redundant and functions were consolidated to drive general efficiencies.
It said cost-cutting measures were continuing, including across-the-board 20% reduction in salaries and reductions in sales, marketing, travel, office and IT costs.
Smart Cities
The installation and deployment of SenSen's A$2.5 million contract with the City of Las Vegas is underway, with two City Parking Services vehicles already fitted out with SenFORCE mobile parking enforcement units and the Gemineye units and installation kits.
Software commissioning of the multi-faceted SenSen solution has commenced and project handover to the city is scheduled for early September.
In April, SenSen won its first commercial US customer, the City of Las Vegas, which covered the deployment of 80 Gemineye units to be used by city officers patrolling streets and car parks on enforcement vehicles, segways and Go4 scooters.
On its contract with Transport for NSW (TfNSW), the new SenSPEED 3.0 ANPR camera and software solution was deployed and has been successful in meeting the high standards set by TfNSW for speed measurement and enforcement purposes. Its financial year 2021 software maintenance program was also agreed with TfNSW in June.
The road safety cameras are powered by SenSens AI software to measure and enforce vehicle average speeds between designated locations.
Following the successful completion of earlier trials involving vehicle-mounted cameras systems, broader commercial discussions are underway with Chicago Parking Meters.
In addition, SenSen received its first orders from New Zealand, with an initial five Gemineye licences procured by Nelson City Council through a reseller arrangement with Integrated Technology Solutions (ITS), which is part of the Linfox Armaguard Group.
ITS is also showcasing the Gemineye solution to five of its US customer city councils and SenSen expects more orders to follow.
The company is continuing trials for the Gemineye offering globally and is in commercial discussions with multiple parties in Australia, New Zealand, the US, India and the Middle East.
Based on feedback received from US customers and institutions, SenSen said it expected to enhance its North American presence once travel restrictions were lifted post-COVID-19.
Further, the paid Driver Distraction Trial is likely to begin this quarter, after COVID-19-related restrictions delayed the February start date.
SenSen has successfully completed the development of technology that combines high resolution, high-sensitivity machine vision cameras with its novel deep Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, and following participation in a rigorous Request for Information (RFI) process.
Retail & Leisure
The company will also re-visit existing casino opportunities through direct engagement with casino groups, and explore other distributor and value-added reseller arrangements, after terminating the exclusive distribution agreement with Japan-based Angel Japan Co Ltd last month. That company was appointed SenSens exclusive distributor of SenGAME 3.0 worldwide effective January 1, 2020.
Despite COVID-19, the company continued to receive orders for the hardware and installation of SenGAME 3.0 on a further 76 tables under existing arrangements and received advance payments of over A$450,000 for these new deployments.
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Scott Morrison effectively ditches his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption commission

Scott Morrison has effectively abandoned his promise to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog, confirming he would only proceed with legislation in the new parliament if Labor agreed to pass the Coalition’s heavily criticised proposal without amendments.
Morrison pledged before the 2019 election to legislate a federal integrity body in the parliamentary term that has just ended. The prime minister broke that promise, failing to introduce his own proposal before the 46th parliament was prorogued.
On the hustings on Wednesday, Morrison was asked – given his previous undertaking to create the body – whether he would promise to put his proposal to a vote in the next parliament in the event the Coalition won the 21 May election.
Morrison declined to make that promise. “Our position on this hasn’t changed,” the prime minister said. “Our view has been the same – when the Labor party is prepared to support that legislation in that form, then we will proceed with it.”
The prime minister has attempted to inoculate himself from criticism about breaking an election promise by saying he tabled the integrity commission proposal in the parliament.
Tabling an exposure draft, which is what the prime minister did, is not the same as introducing finished legislation to the House of Representatives or the Senate that is then debated and voted on.
As well as repeatedly fudging what happened in parliament, Morrison has also created the impression the proposal can only proceed if Labor agrees to its passage without amendments.
All governments routinely introduce legislation for debate without any undertaking that it will be passed by the opposition. Labor favours a stronger model than the Coalition’s proposal.
Morrison’s lack of urgency on the issue created tensions within government ranks. Late last year, the Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor to support independent MP Helen Haines’ bill to establish a federal integrity commission. Archer accused the government of “inertia” over the issue.
At that time, Archer said she was “perplexed” at her own government’s failure to release a revised bill almost three years after it was promised before the last election.
While Morrison clearly wants to move on from the issue, he will face renewed pressure from crossbench independents if the coming election is close enough to deliver a hung parliament.
A number of independents running against Liberals in metropolitan seats have made it clear that establishing a credible national integrity commission will be a key demand in the event any new government – Liberal or Labor – is seeking agreements for confidence and supply.
Haines blasted Morrison’s comments on Wednesday. “Mr Morrison broke an election promise to introduce an anti-corruption commission and his pathway to creating one is still as vague as it was in the last parliament,” she said.
The crossbench independent said it was “nonsense” for the prime minister to claim that he could not proceed unless Labor agreed with the Coalition’s proposal without seeking any amendments. “It would appear we are in the same void as we were before,” Haines said.
Australia
Chinese healer Hong Chi Xiao has manslaughter charge overturned and will face new trial

A western Sydney “slapping therapy” practitioner who was found guilty of the manslaughter of a six-year-old diabetic boy and sentenced to 10 years in prison has had his conviction overturned and will face another trial.
Hong Chi Xiao appeared in Sydney’s Court of Criminal Appeal on Wednesday.
Mr Xiao was extradited from London to Sydney in 2017 to face charges more than two years after the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, died following a series of workshops held in Hurstville in April 2015.
The boy’s parents attended the conference where the self-proclaimed Chinese healer showed a “disdain for Western medicine”.
Mr Xiao allegedly advised the parents to stop their son’s insulin injections and blood glucose tests.
A Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) investigation found that Mr Xiao told the boy’s parents that slapping therapy “could heal all diseases, including diabetes, and that no medication was required because insulin could be generated” through the treatment.
He also allegedly recommended the six-year-old boy stop eating for three days and only drink water or a “ginger date drink”.
Slapping therapy, also known as paida lajin, advocates the slapping of skin to release toxins from patients.
The boy became visibly ill over several days and began vomiting a black substance, but Mr Xiao allegedly told the boy’s mother that his body was adjusting to the “self-healing process”.
He began having seizures and was rushed to St George Hospital, where he died.
The NSW Coroner found the treatment directly caused the boy’s death on April 27, 2015.
A District Court jury found Mr Xiao guilty of manslaughter for breaching the duty of care he owed the six-year-old boy through gross negligence.
He was handed a sentence of 10 years with a non-parole period of 7½ years in December 2019.
District Court Judge Garry Neilson said Mr Xiao showed “no signs of true remorse”.
Mr Xiao launched an appeal against his conviction, claiming inconsistencies in the evidence and that Judge Neilson told the jury that there was “no defence” during the trial.
Tim Game SC told the court that Judge Neilson did not summarise the defence case and did not give enough evidence to the jury to make a sound decision.
After a short adjournment, Justice Derek Price, Justice Ian Harrison and Justice Mark Ierace granted the appeal and quashed Mr Xiao’s conviction.
However, he will have to face a fresh trial in front of a new jury.
Mr Xiao will face the Sydney District Court on March 11 for mention.
He has been permanently banned from practising medicine by the HCCC.
The boy’s mother, father and grandmother were also initially charged over his death, but they were found not guilty and acquitted.
Mr Xiao has been in prison since his arrest in 2017 but has long rejected criticism that his techniques endanger lives.
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