Six months after former Industry minister Ed Husic publicly accepted all 11 recommendations of the long-running Pathway to STEM Diversity Review, the federal government has walked back from those...
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Productivity Commission chair Danielle Wood has dashed hopes of early reforms to R&D settings through the productivity roundtable process, declaring it a matter for the Strategic Examination of R&D....
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The Queensland government’s new $1 billion digital fund is prioritising Software-as-a-Service and common platforms under the watch of a handful of public servants and a highly paid consultant. The...
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Nicholas Mant, the former chief investment risk and sustainability officer at the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility, has joined the National Reconstruction Fund Corporation in the newly created role of...
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As public sector agencies accelerate their cloud migrations and adopt software-as-a-service platforms, their cybersecurity strategies must also evolve — and fast. According to CyberArk head of public sector Derek...
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Melbourne robotic parcel sorting startup Nexobot has won the inaugural Propel-AIR accelerator competition, earning its founder Dominic Lindsay a residency at MassRobotics, a global robotics hub in Boston. Nexobot...
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Australia’s privacy regulator is taking Optus to court over the telco’s 2022 data breach, alleging the company “seriously interfered” with the privacy of around 9.5 million Australians. The Office...
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OpenAI launched on Thursday its GPT-5 artificial intelligence model, the highly anticipated latest installment of a technology that has helped transform global business and culture. OpenAI’s GPT models are...
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Industry minister Tim Ayres and the Treasurer Jim Chalmers seemed to shut the door on calls to rewrite copyright laws in a way that would provide a ‘fair dealing’...
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Big Four consulting giant PwC has been given the all clear to resume bidding for new federal government work, leading to outrage from three senators pushing to keep the...
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The national science agency has confirmed it is “reshaping” its research portfolio to do “fewer things, better”, after the staff union warned hundreds of job will be cut later...
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New South Wales has become the latest state to move to prohibit the creation and distribution of sexually explicit deepfakes in response to the significant increase in image-based abuse....
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The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has made its second investment in Australia’s critical minerals sector, committing $50 million to Liontown Resources’ flagship Kathleen Valley lithium project in Western Australia....
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Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced a three-year, $1 billion commitment to provide artificial intelligence training and tools to U.S. higher education institutions and nonprofits. More than 100 universities have...