As nearly a million Australians deal with job losses, and unemployment creeps up to 7.1 per cent, it is hard to find the positives of COVID-19. Yet over the...
Policy
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The researchers behind a new report used by the federal government to tout COVIDSafe as “the most secure” contact tracing app in the world say that a decentralised model...
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The power to issue and authorise encryption-busting notices needs to be taken away from agency heads and the government and vested in a new judicial oversight body, the government’s...
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When InnovationAus started publishing a weekly newsletter five years ago this week, Tony Abbott was the Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull was the Communications Minister and Scott Morrison was the...
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The federal government’s privacy office has called for changes to legislation facilitating data-sharing agreements with other countries in order to protect the personal data of Australians. Australia Information and...
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The New South Wales government signed a whole of government purchasing arrangement with Vault Cloud on Tuesday, the first such arrangement with a home-grown sovereign technology provider by any...
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Foreign cloud companies such as Amazon and Microsoft would be restricted from handling certain government data sets as part of a new government plan following concerns over the security...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has been handed responsibility for developing a new visa processing system after a botched attempt to contract this job to the private sector which cost...
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Australia is “in danger of being left behind” as most other developed nations place R&D investment at the centre of their COVID-19 economic recoveries, UTS Innovation Council chair Professor...
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The government’s new digital tender platform is experiencing teething issues during its first public use, forcing a delay to applications for suppliers on the cloud marketplace. It was announced...
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The government’s planned changes to the research and development tax incentive are “unsalvageable”, and more is needed to be done instead to ensure that IP developed in Australia remains...
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More than $7 billion will be spent to transform how Australia’s defence force operates in space, with a focus on improving sovereign capability. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday...
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If ever there was a time for Australia’s boardrooms to look around the table and assess their own digital skills and technology experience it is right now, Australian Institute...
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The government did not undertake any consultation on its planned $1.8 billion cut to the R&D tax incentive, with the reintroduction of the significant changes taking major stakeholders by...