Author: Joseph Brookes

Govt’s big tech levy pause ‘cowering to the bully’

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The Greens have lashed a slow down on Australia’s plan to start charging online platforms that refuse to pay for news content, following a report the government is going...

Scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher named IISA chair

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Adjunct Professor and scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed the federal government’s top innovation adviser after decades working across the quantum, mining, robotics, and startup sectors. The...

‘Extraordinary’: Scams bill rammed through Senate

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Banks, telcos and online platforms like Google and Facebook will be subject to new rules and $50 million penalties after federal Parliament passed world-first anti-scam laws on Thursday. But...

Ombudsman armed with new powers to avoid Robodebt repeat

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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 royal commission....

Committee calls for sweeping changes to workplace AI rules

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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 workplace to be classified...

Defence brews up $16m mystery cloud platform

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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 exactly what...

Wollongong hydrogen pioneer links with Saudi energy giant

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Wollongong manufacturer Hysata will build a commercial-scale demonstration hydrogen production system with its ultra efficient electrolysers in Saudi Arabia in a tie up with an energy giant powering the...