Author: Joseph Brookes

‘Time pressures’ hang over NDIA technology overhaul

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The potential overhaul of NDIS backend technologies is occurring under “considerable time pressures”, with the agency leading it declining to grant extensions to vendors considering making a proposal. The...

Ayres’ clarion call for national interest policy

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The Albanese government has urged industry giants like Cochlear, Thales and Rio Tinto to pull together in the “national interest” and resist falling into antiquated arguments as debate ramps...

Who’s in the room: Ayres’ innovation roundtables

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Dozens of  industry leaders, policy makers and academic experts will assemble in Sydney on Friday morning to put forward a case for innovation’s role in the government’s expanding reform...

Senate demands release of welfare tech probe

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The Senate has ordered Employment minister Amanda Rishworth hand over a review of backend technology at her department after a series of bugs and administration failures raised serious doubts...

My Health Record infrastructure goes to market

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The agency behind My Health Record has gone to market to start carving up the decades-long $780 million Accenture contract underpinning the national data system, but is sticking with...

Home Affairs, Federal Police pulled under security watch

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The first piece of legislation introduced by new Attorney General Michelle Rowland on Wednesday will place the entire national intelligence community under the oversight of the security watchdog and...

Historic Australian rocket crashes shortly after take off

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Gilmour Space Technologies launched its maiden rocket from northern Queensland on Wednesday morning, but it crashed shortly after the historic take-off. The locally designed and manufactured rocket took off...

Welfare compliance tech plagued by defects

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Government IT systems that incorrectly penalised welfare recipients remain at breaking point and will continue to malfunction, the Employment department was warned earlier this year by independent reviewers. Documents...

Unions to seek workplace AI protections from Chalmers

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Australia’s largest workers’ group has launched a push to tighten artificial intelligence regulations, including requiring employers to guarantee job security and retraining opportunities. The Australian Council of Trade Unions...