Author: James Riley

Govt robodebt legal fees top $34m: Labor

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has spent more than $34 million to fight ongoing legal challenges to its unlawful robodebt scheme according to Labor, with $545 million now paid back to...

Pawsey, NCI join White House led research

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
The White House Office of Science and Technology has announced that NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining...

Google goes to war over ad revenue

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Google has gone on the offensive against the Australian government’s plans to force it to enter into revenue-sharing agreements with media companies, issuing a series of threats over the...

Health dept stands by COVIDSafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal Health department has stood by COVIDSafe at a Senate hearing, despite confirming it was yet to identify a new close contact in Victoria, where contact tracers stopped...

Aust-US ties on science and tech bolstered

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
Australia and the United States have moved to strengthened their history of collaboration through a senior-level dialogue on science and frontier technologies led by Industry Minister Karen Andrews. Minister...

Larry Marshall: ‘History will judge us’

Posted on   |  by James Riley
At a time when public trust in science is on the rise, CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has issued a clarion call to Australia to rally around a set...

Tech companies spared from new FIRB test

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Most tech companies may be spared from the strict new foreign investment national security test rules, with the government releasing draft legislation on the significant reforms. The federal government...

DTA boosts COVID digital comms team

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency is expanding its COVID-19 response team as part of a wave of new hirings for the government’s digital office, which has battled high levels of...

Impunity to fight cyber attacks: New laws

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Private companies running nationally significant systems will be given legal impunity to fight cyber threats, while the federal government will be allowed to take control of these companies in...