Author: Joseph Brookes

Research blockers keep govt data sharing scheme grounded

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University researchers are still unable to access the government’s data sharing regime three years in, warning “opaque and time-consuming” access rules are slowing their work. Non-university medical research institutions...

Health department’s software SNAFU laid bare

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The federal Health department has been locked in a year-and-a-half long legal battle over whether it owns software developed by subcontractors, after the consultancy that sat in the middle...

NSW Opposition joins call for data centre push

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The NSW Opposition has called on the Minns government to put the state’s digital infrastructure at the heart of its productivity drive with better planning policies or a formal...

Google facing adtech class action from local businesses

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Google is facing a class action from Australian businesses over the fees it charges for advertising technology, after regulators around the world started closing in on the US tech...

Procurement advisers cash in on ATO technology uplift

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Half a dozen external procurement advisers were paid $88 million to assist the tax office with sourcing its major IT managed services, after the deals blew out more than...

Higher education sector shifts toward data standards

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A higher education sector effort to align data standards across institutions and global borders will take a step forward on Thursday with the addition of Australia’s largest enterprise software...