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Ombudsman armed with new powers to avoid Robodebt repeat

New laws forcing agencies to cooperate with the Commonwealth Ombudsman and surrender documents have passed parliament, in the latest part of the government’s response to the Robodebt...

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The growing impact of SaaS on shared services

The just-created federal ERP marketplace is a generational re-write of the government’s enterprise software strategy, giving departments and agencies a broader choice and new...

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ACS booked a $7m loss last year – its first in a decade

The Australian Computer Society reported an almost $7 million loss last financial year, marking its first deficit in more than a decade and forcing the organisation to eat into members...

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Path to prosperity: Tiptoeing through a global AI arms race

Anyone expecting Industry and Science minister Ed Husic to use his National Press Club address on Wednesday to detail policies to boost Australia’s R&D investment to the same...

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Services Australia inks $226m data centre deal

Services Australia will pay the largest provider of data centre services to the federal government almost $4 million per month over the next five years under a new hosting deal. The...

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Committee calls for sweeping changes to workplace AI rules

A Parliamentary inquiry that heard evidence of rising worker surveillance, excessive data collection and unfair automated decision tools has called for artificial intelligence in the...

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Govt drops $272m on local radar tech for ADF

Australia will buy as many as 14 muti-mission phased array radars from CEA Technologies, the defence tech manufacturer acquired by the federal governments in 2023. Defence minister...

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Harrison.ai banks $179m in mammoth Series C

AI MedTech pioneer Harrison.ai is eyeing global expansion into new markets like the United States after closing one of the largest ever Series C funding rounds for an Australian tech...

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Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

Defence has inked its biggest cloud deal with Amazon Web Services to build a new mystery platform on the American hyperscaler’s infrastructure. The department declined to say...