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EV battery manufacturing opportunities focus of new inquiry

Battery manufacturing opportunities in Australia will be a focus of a new parliamentary inquiry into the transition to electric vehicles. The House Standing Committee on Climate Change, Energy, Environment,...

Former Qld Premier, Treasurer met with PsiQuantum

US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum met with former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in the same month that a secret quantum computing EoI was issued by the federal government last...

Two hydrogen hubs secure $147m in funding

More than two years after the first round of the hydrogen hubs program opened under the former Coalition government, the last $147 million in grant funding has been committed...

Ransomware reporting: The long road to change

Australian businesses will continue making ransomware payments while it makes business sense, but the government’s move to force disclosure of the payments will eventually help arrest the current growth...

SA to trial locally-made Google laptops in schools

Chromebook laptops will be assembled in Australia for the first time under a new deal between Google and Adelaide-based gaming PC manufacturer Allied Corporation to supply the computers to...

How Broken Hill became a digital oasis in the outback

Turning an ageing council website into a beacon of accessibility set a new standard for inclusivity in remote Australia, while unlocking a revenue success story.   Broken Hill is geographically...

Almost 250 manufacturers go bust in six months

Nearly 250 manufacturers collapsed amid sustained high inflation and higher borrowing costs over the past six months, new data from Australia’s corporate watchdog shows. The increase in insolvencies comes...

Too much focus on AI downside, not enough investment

There is too much focus in Australia on trying to regulate the downside risk of artificial intelligence, and too little on securing its upside benefits, according to Professor Anton...

Law reform for high-risk AI on the way

Australia will have mandatory safeguards for high-risk artificial intelligence use like autonomous vehicles and healthcare but make little to no intervention for low-risk use like filtering spam emails under...

Agencies flock to use Microsoft Copilot in APS trial

Thousands of public servants at dozens of federal departments and agencies will become the first to gain access to Microsoft Copilot as part of a six-month trial of the...

Online voting: NSW gets the ball rolling on iVote 2.0

The revival of internet voting for blind and low vision voters in New South Wales is underway, with the government agency in charge of state elections now scouring the...