As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...
Policy
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Stephen Conroy really does do things his way. Last Thursday, at 8:53pm at the end of the sitting week, he got up to make a second reading speech on the...
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The federal Department of Industry steadfastly refuses to call it a procurement policy or an industry development program, but the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is a new...
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Telstra, Optus and the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC), an industry body representing smaller telecommunication companies including Vodafone, have resoundingly called for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to...
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An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...
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If a week is a long time in politics, spare thought for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has now been in the job for a year. His expert...
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The NSW Government has signed up to the Commonwealth’s federated model for digital identity even before detail of the new scheme has been made public, or even been put...
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To the casual observer, the Digital Transformation Office looks like it has become a high-powered revolving door. Lots of people, lots of churn. The latest senior appointment is former Treasury...
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Australia is facing a severe shortage of cyber security specialists, says Richard Byfield, head of Datacom Technical Security Services. “There’s just not enough talented personnel,” Mr Byfield says. “It’s...
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Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says Australia is in the grip of “evangelical fervour” regarding the Internet of Things. But analysis shows the nation is still in explorer mode. Speaking...
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) announcement of an inquiry into “whether or not to declare a wholesale domestic mobile roaming service” is a timely reminder that the...
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A digital identity platform is absolutely essential if the government’s grand vision of streamlined, digital-delivered services is ever to be fully realised. But it needs to be properly explained,...
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If you think that you have to be in Sydney or Melbourne to successfully launch that business idea of yours, you can’t be further away from the truth. What’s...
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Australia looks like throwing its lot in with the UK-originated Hypercat Alliance as a technology standard for the Internet of Things to support the development of smart cities. Hypercat...