The federal government will pay Accenture more than $3 million per month across the next year to work on its digital identity scheme, with the Irish multinational scoring a...
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The Opposition has accused Industry minister Christian Porter of neglecting his portfolio and doing the “bare minimum” after he failed to speak on two pieces of legislation in his...
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Opinion: A final report into the notoriously murky and concentrated digital advertising market should now be sitting on the Treasurer’s desk. The report, which was due by August 31, contains how...
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Accenture has landed contracts with the tax office worth more than $70 million, including one which will see the Irish-domiciled multinational consultancy firm paid more than $5.5 million per...
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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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The Western Australian government’s 2021-22 State budget is investing in manufacturing including green steel, green hydrogen and battery metals, with the establishment of a $100 million Investment Attraction and...
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Professor Reg Coutts, one of six expert panelists who helped envisage the original National Broadband Network (NBN), has passed away. Professor Coutts passed away peacefully in hospital in Adelaide...
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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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Legislation that hands new powers to intelligence agencies to spy on Australians sailed through Parliament in just hours following a five-day inquiry by the national security committee, in a...
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The federal government was warned early this year that its $16 million COVIDSafe contact tracing app was ineffective in “very high-risk settings” and was wasting the time of state...
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The Australian Space Agency should be made a permanent statutory authority and be given funding that is more in line with comparable countries like Canada, the head of Australia’s...
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The federal government has again blocked the release of documents relating to the robodebt scandal, in an “enormous undermining of public confidence” which could lead to similar failures of...
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The Senate has shot down the federal government’s attempt to launch an inquiry into Australia’s sovereign capability and critical infrastructure. Nationals Senator Matt Canavan moved a motion in the...
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Legislation handing “extraordinary” new hacking powers to Australian authorities has sailed through Parliament with support from the Opposition, despite the government not implementing some of the recommendations from the...