Labor will crack down on the skilled visa scheme if it wins the upcoming election, but has moved to reassure the tech sector that this will not impact efforts...
Policy
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Australia’s former ambassador to Israel and Liberal candidate for the Sydney seat of Wentworth, Dave Sharma says Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is struggling to master...
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Freshly-minted NSW customer service minister Victor Dominello will impose mandated digital designs and data architectures across government departments in order to standardise service delivery and data collection in all...
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Government’s failure to pass the Consumer Data Right legislation before the May election could lead to further delays to the rollout of the open banking scheme. When both houses...
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The federal government has rejected a recommendation to make the Australian Signals Directorate’s “baseline” Essential Eight cyber mitigation strategies mandatory. Earlier this month the government quietly tabled its response...
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The most significant shift in the Victorian government’s IT infrastructure in more than a decade will be completed by the end of the year. State-owned ICT service enterprise Cenitex...
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With the federal government now in caretaker mode ahead of the May poll, the Department of Industry has quietly shelved the public release of its Industry Growth Centres performance...
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The federal election campaign has officially kicked off, and it’s already clear that the tech sector will not feature in the prominent way it did during former PM Malcolm...
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The Opposition will make a major election pitch at human capital and skills to address looming technological change, the shadow treasurer flagged in his speech to the National Press...
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A toxic scare campaign surrounding electric vehicles in the first week of the federal election campaign “flies in the face of fact” and risks seeing Australia fall even further...
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The David Thodey-led industry growth agency Jobs for NSW has been moved into a new Business and Economic Development Unit within the state’s Treasury portfolio, putting it at the...
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A funding boost for the Office of the Information Commissioner in this year’s budget would be used to underwrite new responsibilities, rather than addressing ongoing under-resourcing, Senate estimates has...
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The Whole-of-Government Hosting Strategy released last week is a much more substantial document than its slim 17 pages suggests. Indeed, it seems to flag some significant shifts in thinking...
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The Shadow Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland has released Labor’s election policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN). The plan focuses on the future and tackles key issues including...