Author: Joseph Brookes

Outgoing ASIC chair says put the foot down on FinTech

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Parts of Australia’s financial services sector are “scared” to innovate to the point they now risk a generational drag on economic progress, outgoing chair of the corporate watchdog Joe...

How Accenture wooed the BoM again

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Documents produced by the Senate last week offer a rare look into how one of the government’s biggest tech suppliers leveraged its partner deals and chopped up its pricing...

The ‘industrial statecraft’ behind Labor’s bailouts

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Industry minister Tim Ayres refuses to let strategic production operations shutter or move offshore, warning Australia would not only lose blue collar jobs, it would be far less likely...

Clouds clearing: CSIRO shifts compute to the edge for AI

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The CSIRO on Monday unveiled its Australian-first edge infrastructure for artificial intelligence, offering users in Brisbane faster on site processing for real world testing of robotics and “a different...

Automated welfare compliance saga hangs over budget

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Australia’s automated welfare system remains an “unquantifiable” liability, with the government bracing for compensation claims for invalid decisions stemming from a malfunctioning IT system and failures to administer social...