It has taken four years for the government and the NBN Co to finally admit what many people have been predicting since the very beginning of the change in...
Policy
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The controversial group tasked with managing the .au internet domain is under scrutiny as part of an upcoming Federal review of governance arrangements. Communications Minister Mitch Fifield announced a...
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The window to reform Australia’s economy will close quickly unless enterprise and Government now firmly grasp the innovation nettle and grow their appetite for risk, according to the chairman...
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The recent disclosure by the Australian Signals Directorate that a defence contractor had lost 30 gigabytes of sensitive, but not classified, data to hacking caused a flap in the...
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Ted Pretty has had a long and celebrated career in the Australian tech sector. The current CEO of data-centric security firm Covata has also held senior positions at Telstra,...
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The federal government has asked industry leaders to develop a mandatory cyber security rating system for Internet of Things devices, but experts say such a scheme would be “enormously...
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La Trobe University’s Professor Jenny Graves has become the first woman to be awarded the nation’s most prestigious science award, having scooped the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, for...
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The RMIT’s newly-minted Blockchain Innovation Hub is just a month old, but is already pressing for fresh thinking on by blockchain technology, including possible regulatory considerations that could underpin...
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There is a school of thought that says – in relation to cyber security – that identity is the new perimeter. And certainly identity has become a central pillar...
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New South Wales Finance Minister Victor Dominello has thrown his weight behind the Federal government’s looming digital identity plans, including the use of state driver’s licence photos to verify...
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Blue Chilli, Flinders University, Collective Campus and FD Global Connections may be the latest recipients of grants under the federal government’s $23 million Incubator Support program, but only one...
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The launch of the National Cyber Security Strategy in 2016 was a positive step toward securing Australia, but there is still more do be done, according to Jeremy Hulse,...
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A number of local FinTech startups have lobbied the Reserve Bank of Australia to create a cryptocurrency version of the Australian dollar. Three use cases from Australian FinTechs were...
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The federal government has reaffirmed a bilateral space agreement with NASA just weeks after it announced it would be creating a national space agency. The Space Tracking Treaty was...