Author: Joseph Brookes

Unlawful welfare cancellations much higher than reported

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Around 310,000 people may have had support payments unlawfully cancelled under the government’s welfare compliance system after automation errors present for years prevented them from being able to reconnect,...

Government AI agents add risk of ‘cascading’ errors

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Government agencies have been warned to keep humans in the loop and carefully plan their rollouts of agentic artificial intelligence to mitigate risks of “cascading errors” and “uncontrolled” executions...

We don’t have the data on data centres’ impact

Posted on   |  by Michael Vardon
Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would...

Former PM: Crank ‘cadence’ of AUKUS Pillar II

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Former Prime minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday brushed off renewed criticism of AUKUS, saying the trilateral pact still gets Australia access to the “holy of holies” US military tech...

Denholm tells founders to stop whinging, keep building

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The architect of Australia’s R&D reset Robyn Denholm says local innovators need to stop “whinging” about unpopular government policy and get on with seizing generational opportunities like AI and...

DTA promises a slice of ‘sovereignty’ in WoG tech deals

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The next wave of federal whole-of-government tech mega deals with the likes of AWS, IBM and Microsoft will have stronger “sovereignty” terms, Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Chris Fechner...

EY clears $2.5bn in federal work with Health cyber deal

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Ernst and Young will be paid more than $13.7 million to lead the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing’s cyber defences, after landing one of its biggest ever federal...

Services Australia sinks another $110m into IBM mainframes

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia has poured almost $110 million more into its ageing IBM mainframes to keep critical services like Medicare and Centrelink running, after a failed upgrade in 2023 forced...