Author: James Riley

Foreign investment changes, despite tech concerns

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Significant reforms to Australia’s foreign investment framework have sailed through parliament with bipartisan support, despite concerns from Labor and the tech sector that they will act as a disincentive...

1414 Degrees and progress of solar thermal storage

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
Energy storage development company 1414 Degrees has accelerated development of its long-awaited Aurora Solar Energy Project at Port Augusta in South Australia. Following an oversubscribed share purchase plan which...

Volvo has now built its 50,000th truck in Brisbane

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
Volvo Group Australia has celebrated the build of the 50,000th Volvo truck at its Wacol, Queensland plant. Volvo Group handed over the FH16 XXL vehicle to its customer Nolan’s...

Data sharing reforms finally hit the Parliament

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Legislation facilitating the significantly expanded sharing of public sector data between agencies and other entities including universities – sometimes without consent – has been introduced to Parliament after more...

National interest plan could drive local cyber sector

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The launch of an Australian national interest strategy could help propel the growth of the local cybersecurity sector and assist the economic recovery from COVID-19, according to AustCyber chief...

The AI dilemma: Great potential, handle with care

Posted on   |  by Alan Dormer
When we mention AI, most people think about autonomy and technologies that replicate human senses or actions, such as machine vision, voice recognition, and factory automation. But there is...

Room to wriggle: Big Tech media bargaining code

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
For most of this year, the federal government has been stuck between a rock and a News Corp after announcing plans to force Facebook and Google to pay for...

Vic govt health database plan is a problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government is yet to consult with its own privacy office on a plan to store the health data of individuals in a database and share it with...

E-invoicing is boring, but worth billions to economy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal Treasury department has gone live with its automated e-invoicing system, using an all-Australian software platform developed by Brisbane-based ERP software giant Technology One and Adelaide-based Link4. With...