Australian governments are forecast to spend more than $6.4 billion dollars next year on IT services like consultants, managed services and cloud infrastructure, as part of a near double-digit...
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Electricity provider Ausgrid says a drone with a 3D-printed “hook” was recently used to untangle 800 metres of twisted powerlines in a remote and inaccessible part of the electricity...
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The competition regulator says Australia’s merger and acquisition laws are out of step with global standards and without reform will harm competition, innovation, and productivity. Competition tsar Rod Sims...
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Opinion: The verdict is in: if you’ve been a victim of a ransomware attack, you will almost certainly be required to report the breach to the Privacy Commissioner and...
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The likes of Apple and Google could be further regulated as the federal government embarks on an overhaul of the Australian payments regulatory framework. It comes after the Treasurer received...
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Apple has fired back at accusations it guards its mobile payment technology in an anticompetitive way, accusing its critics, including the Commonwealth Bank’s boss, of misleading a parliamentary inquiry...
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Strict safeguards are needed around the South Australian government use of new technology for home quarantine, digital rights advocates say, with individuals to use facial recognition software and geolocation...
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Data breaches arising from ransomware incidents increased by 24 per cent in the first half of the year, prompting Australia’s Privacy Commissioner to warn that such attacks “are a...
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Australian developers have been forced to go it alone to keep the government design system running after it was abruptly ditched by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) this month,...
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OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...
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Electricity providers will be required to allow households and businesses to access their energy data under draft laws expanding the Consumer Data Right to the sector, released by the...
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The first private company has received accreditation from the federal government as a digital identity provider, with legislation facilitating a significant expansion of the digital ID program set to...
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Melbourne Health is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers, responsible for the Royal Melbourne Hospital, NorthWestern Mental Health and the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. All up, these...
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Now before people @me, I have long advocated for a far-reaching agenda for a ‘digital transformation’ institution. More on that shortly, but we are way off track. Even at...