The federal government’s much-hyped contact tracing app has identified just 14 new close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases, and none outside of New South Wales, nearly six months after...
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The government will upgrade half of Australia’s fibre-to-the-node NBN network to full fibre as part of a $3 billion plan to make faster internet more widely available, in what...
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A top-flight Israeli medical innovation centre has been crunching the development of leading edge COVID-19 related health projects from years down to weeks, including a rapid test kit that...
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The federal government will focus the bulk of its investment aimed at reducing emissions in priority technologies like clean hydrogen and carbon capture rather than renewable energy technologies. Energy...
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The framework governing the federal government’s $200 million digital identity program is “very vague” and “counter-intuitive” and more design flaws will likely be found, according to the security researcher...
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There is a “window of opportunity” for Australia to develop its 5G sovereign capability and address security issues, and urgent action is needed from the federal government, according to...
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Over the past week, there were two very significant announcements regarding healthcare. But the announcements could not have been more different in terms of ambition, future focus and person...
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It is no accident that the idea of Australia “punching above its weight” became a colloquial commonplace in the 1980s and 1990s. It was the time when Australian efforts...
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Proposed changes to Australia’s foreign investment rules will “imperil” the future of the country’s quantum computing sector and severely disadvantage local tech companies, according to a number of submissions...
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More than 700,000 businesses across 240 designated ‘Business Fibre Zones’ nationwide will get access to free upgrades to gigabit fibre connections as part of a $700 million post-COVID economic...
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The federal government has finally unveiled draft legislation outlining a new data-sharing regime for public sector information, which would involve far more data being shared across agencies and to...
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Philanthropic organisations are able to mobilise capital and drive innovation to solve big, thorny problems in a way that governments cannot, according to Adrian Turner, the former CSIRO executive...
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It has been a pretty safe bet, anecdotally at least, to say that trust in government has increased since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers at Curtain University...
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Australians are dynamic. But the dynamism of our people is not reflected in our economy. We rely too much on what we dig out of the ground and grow....