In July 2022, the Australian government enacted the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Act 2022. This law commits Australia to an ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43...
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Australia’s corporate watchdog has shed light on ongoing efforts to investigate a ‘data spine’ of business and company data, one of the core benefits of the registry overhaul scrapped...
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A cut-down version of the government data hosting rules that currently apply to data centres and cloud storage will be extended to cloud software and third-party IT services under...
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Global banking giant HSBC has avoided a hefty fine despite allegedly sending inaccurate and incomplete data through Australia’s budding economy-wide data sharing scheme. The bank paid penalties of $33,000...
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Researchers at Australia’s national science agency are “bullish” on the potential productivity gains to be had from developing foundation AI models in Australia, and say that building sovereign capability...
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The New South Wales government has begun a trial of network sensing technology on two major rivers in Sydney that promises to deliver more reliable flood and storm intelligence...
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Google’s dominance of internet search and the potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt or entrench it will go under the microscope in the competition watchdog’s second inquiry of the...
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Canberra-based sovereign cloud provider AUCloud is set to acquire three local technology companies for $30 million as it looks to grow its offerings in the face of a cash...
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The New South Wales government permanently “retired” the role of chief data scientist late last year, prompting Professor Ian Oppermann, the architect of the state’s AI Assurance Framework, to...
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Australia’s controversial encryption-busting powers have not been used to investigate terrorism offences for a fifth year in a row, despite the former Coalition government using the heightened prospect of...
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A long-promised air traffic control system for drones is one step closer to reality after Australia’s air traffic control agency selected an Austrian headquartered company to take the Flight...
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Airtrunk has marginally overtaken NextDC as the data centre provider with the largest greenhouse gases emissions in Australia, as total emissions from the sector hit record levels. On Wednesday,...
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Remember the optimism around the Open Banking revolution and Australia’s new digital data economy opportunity a few years back? It was enthusiastic but fleeting, having bubbled-up somewhere after the...
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A new procurement panel for AI-enabled research performance data and analytical services will be accessible to all government agencies as a part of the Australian Research Council’s reform of...