Universities Australia has poached fellow lobby group ATN Universities’ leader Luke Sheehy to be its new chief executive from next year, as the sector braces for major changes and...
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The Albanese government has agreed to keep the myGov platform as its digital front door for services but won’t completely accept expert recommendations to protect it in legislation and...
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Australia’s artificial intelligence discourse has been captured by “majoritarian thinking” that accepts a social cost for claims of massive economic value, former privacy watchdog Malcolm Crompton warned on Monday...
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Queensland has a new Digital Services minister in Bart Mellish, an environmental scientist who served as chief of staff to federal Labor Senator Anthony Chisholm prior to politics. Mr...
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A strategic materials list has been released alongside the federal government’s updated critical minerals list to identify commodities that are “essential for the energy transition, but which are not...
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Australia’s competition watchdog will be handed new powers to request information from digital platforms that could extend to secret commercial deals with news businesses under planned changes to the...
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Australia’s defence industry strategy should be more closely aligned to broader industrial development policy in order to build national capability in areas of strategic importance that can quickly scale...
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Australia’s newest digital identity service may give startups a more straightforward path to onboard customers faster, combining the strengths of both the private and public sectors. The digital exchange...
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PsiQuantum, a front-runner in the federal government’s secret quantum computing EoI, was the only foreign company to take part in the inaugural meeting of Queensland’s newly formed quantum advisory...
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Teachers and childcare workers will be among the first able to perform digital identity checks in New South Wales when the state government launches a new option for renewing...
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When Australian Greens Leader, Adam Bandt raved last week about the US administration’s $1.5 trillion Inflation Reduction Act subsidy largesse for America’s green energy reindustrialisation, he again called for...
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Eleven industry leaders from across Australia representing institutional research, startups, corporates and government have been named to the Advisory Board for the 2024 iteration of the ‘Papers’ series, to...
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The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) launched an investment fund on Friday that aims to improve access to capital for startups associated with the university, and to fill gaps...
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“Privileged access management is a core pillar of our cybersecurity program going forward,” said Phil Ross, chief information security officer at Air New Zealand — an airline handling sensitive...