Western Australia’s new Innovation Minister Don Punch wants more IP kept in the state, government services reshaped around citizen needs, and to grow the local ICT sector through state...
Policy
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Escalating cyber threats has meant there is no time to refine Australia’s critical infrastructure security scheme, Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo says, urging Parliament to pass the bill without delay. If passed,...
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The Victorian government has made a number of submissions to the federal government’s approach to market for a local mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability, with several other states also vying...
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The government is wary of over-regulating new technologies such as artificial intelligence and will resist making ethics standards and codes mandatory for Australian businesses, Digital Economy minister Jane Hume...
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The federal government must require greater transparency from the social media giants about COVID-19 misinformation following the large-scale anti-lockdown protests in Sydney and Melbourne at the weekend, shadow assistant...
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The federal opposition has accused the government of being “wilfully blind” to the use of labour hire within the public service, amid growing concerns about the over reliance on...
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Industry minister Christian Porter says he is open-minded about a separate R&D Tax Incentive scheme for software but will not consider the issue until a Senate committee reports in...
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Handing lucrative IT contracts to multinational tech delivery firms “defies common sense” and undermines the capacity of the public sector to build technical capability, leading tax experts have told...
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Labor will introduce a bill requiring ministers to report when they approve grants rejected by their departments or when they award grants in their own electorates, in an effort...
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The increasingly common practice of large financial providers “debanking” Australian tech firms is a “significant threat to competition” and risks “undermining” the growth of the local sector, a Parliamentary...
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Industry, Science and Technology minister Christian Porter has mapped a layered set of priorities for Australia’s manufacturing-led recovery that preserves existing jobs, plugs supply-chain and capability gaps, and keeps...
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You could say the last twelve months may well have been a dress rehearsal for the next decade. We saw widespread adoption of a set of technologies that accelerated...
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It is 52 years since the first person walked on the moon. The day that Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins landed on the moon was one of...
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The search is on for a Freedom of Information Commissioner after the federal government provided $1 million in funding to establish the position, as the nation’s privacy office battles...