Author: Joseph Brookes

Google dominance chilling ad tech competition, driving up fees: ACCC

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Australia’s competition regulator has called for new laws and sector-specific rules to address “ineffective” competition in the multibillion-dollar advertising technology sector, warning an entrenched Google is preferencing its own...

Quad commitment on semiconductor supply chain, tech principles

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The Australian government has agreed to map the supply chains of critical technologies and materials, including semiconductors, as part of an agreement with fellow Quad nations on technology development,...

Digital ministers’ in vaccination certificate pact

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Australian governments are working to incorporate federal vaccination certificates into state and territory check in apps and are cooperating on home quarantine for fully vaccinated people as states and...

Gig guide: Sims’ step up, Senate President out early

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Australia’s competition czar has landed a top role with an international group of regulators where he will coordinate their approach to the digital economy and the government’s Senate president...

The information technology cost of closed borders

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The federal government outsourced more than $5 million of technology work to manage its international travel exemptions for one year, including large IT contracts where only a single provider...

Govt to standardise university commercialisation contracts

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The federal government intends to standardise intellectual property rights contracts between universities and businesses under a mandatory scheme for all federally funded research projects that engage in commercialisation. The...