The New South Wales government has allocated a further $500m to its Digital Restart Fund, expanding Australia’s biggest government digital infrastructure program beyond $2 billion and extending it a...
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Long-awaited reforms to employee share schemes aren’t expected anytime soon and may not be introduced before the next election, despite the federal government promising changes in the May budget...
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The Victorian government won’t move to completely block police access to its COVID-19 QR code check-in app data despite authorities trying to obtain this information on multiple occasions, in...
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Sovereignty issues have shifted into the spotlight across a number of sectors in Australia due to the supply chain challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This should raise important...
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Victoria will conduct the first clinical trial of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Australia as the state looks to partner with the federal government to establish a national manufacturing...
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It is easy to be distressed if you dwell too long on some of the facts around how our food is produced – unethical livestock conditions and farming practices...
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Labor has called on the federal government to urgently support its legislation introducing a mandatory ransomware notification scheme which “lays the foundation” for enforcement actions against cyber attacks. Shadow...
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The New South Wales government will commit nearly half a billion dollars in Tuesday’s budget to the uptake of electric vehicles, including limited $3,000 rebates and the removal of...
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Energy experts and a former ASIO chief have warned that Australia’s critical energy infrastructure was growing in complexity and vulnerability to cyber-attacks, but a commensurate uplift in resilience has...
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Digital Transformation Agency CEO Randall Brugeaud is set to leave at the end of the month, after three years in the role, with the agency facing a significant funding...
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The federal government must make an “urgent investment” in Australian public service staff to avoid any more government technology “failures” like robodebt, COVIDSafe and the 2016 census outage, a...
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The Online Safety Bill will pass Parliament after Labor offered its support for the controversial legislation despite being “not happy” about the way it has been delivered, and the Greens...
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The Queensland government has appointed RedEye co-founder Wayne Gerard as the state’s new Chief Entrepreneur, filling the position which has been vacant since last year. Mr Gerard has been actively...
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The NSW government will allocate $28 million to bushfire research and development in next week’s state budget, with an Emerging Industry Infrastructure Fund to also be unveiled. NSW Treasurer...