Nearly 200,000 people identified by the unlawful robodebt scheme won’t be pursued, with the federal government scrapping long-running investigations and wiping debts from the “shameful” scheme. On Wednesday, Social...
Policy
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Privacy law reforms are being expedited in the wake of Australia’s largest data breach, with tougher penalties, data retention limits and anti-fraud measures expected to be revealed ahead of...
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Calls for sweeping changes to how Australia measures and acts on innovation efforts made three years ago still stand for the new government, according to the experts behind it,...
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Exemptions to privacy laws for political parties should be ditched in the wake of mass unsolicited spam texts and other attempts to spread misinformation during this year’s election campaign,...
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While the former government kept a landmark Innovation Metrics Review secret for years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics quietly implemented one of its key recommendations to better understand how...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has flagged a government response to financial regulators’ warning that fintechs and digital currency exchanges are being “de-banked” suddenly and with little explanation. After reviewing the...
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One of the most interesting facets of the freedom of speech debate is the fact there is almost no argument as to whether a limit to this freedom should...
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Australia would have a whole-of-government entity to lead and report on national innovation efforts based on more sophisticated data had the previous government accepted the recommendations of a landmark...
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A comprehensive, 500-page report aimed at improving innovation measurement to support better policy-making handed to the government in late 2019 has finally been released, revealing a number of “time-sensitive”...
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Australia has slipped to seventh in the United Nations global ranking of ‘e-governments’, its worst position in a decade. New Zealand and several Scandinavian countries are now ahead of...
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In application, industrial policy reflects a complex interplay between national economic policy, international competitiveness policy and international competition policy. Industrial policy cannot be dismissed with glib assertions about the...
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With more worrying signs about business innovation in Australia, the Productivity Commission has proposed shifting policy focus from incentives, grants and public research to create our own inventions to...
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There are many high-profile case histories that demonstrate the huge benefits for regulated entities and their customers of the effective use of technology and data in the regulatory sphere....
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Australia urgently needs dedicated facial recognition laws to stop the current slide towards a surveillance state and reduce the serious risk of error in high stakes applications like policing,...