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What next for shared services after GovERP decision

Typing pools were once the height of cutting-edge business practices and technological sophistication. Fast forward to today, and we might chuckle at their portrayal in the movies and TV...

Gallagher sets expectations for govt in new digital strategy

Government agencies will need to align their digital strategies and future investment with a new whole-of-government plan that introduces a mission-based approach, hard metrics on success and a stronger...

Canberra to adopt govt-wide data ethics framework

National guidance to help public servants make ethical decisions when collecting, using and sharing public data will be developed by the federal government in a bid to tackle the...

MYEFO withholds funding detail for quantum strategy

The Albanese government has withheld funding details for the country’s first-ever quantum strategy due to “commercial sensitivities”, fueling speculation that it is in the market for a quantum computer....

Alarm at $103m raid on university research programs

The federal government on Wednesday revealed a $103 million cut to university research programs to help fund reforms across the wider sector, angering research groups already dealing with record-low...

Strategic partners as important as funding for deep tech

Deep tech startups consider strategic partnerships with universities or other research institutions a growth tool almost as important as access to funding, according to a new report by Cicada...

RDTI claims growing, expected to cost extra $2.1bn by 2027

The Research and Development Tax Incentive is expected to cost an additional $2.1 billion over the next four years in part due to growing artificial intelligence claims, according to...

Technology policy in Australia: A 2023 report card

Laws are only as good as the ability to enforce them, and in 2023 technology policy was accompanied by concerns with our regulators and their various roles and abilities...

Robodebt ruins: Govt invests in automated decision framework

More than $10 million has been set aside to introduce a consistent legal framework for automated decision-making across government and to bring back an administrative decisions watchdog abolished by...

Regulators urged to get proactive on generative AI

Governments around the world can use existing laws and regulators to proactively address many of the privacy and data risks associated with new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence,...

‘Confusing’ myGovID platform to be rebranded

myGovID, the federal government’s digital identity credential, will be rebranded after an audit of myGov found it was confusing for users and difficult to differentiate from the flagship digital...

Millions spent on dud welfare calculator despite local option

A “viable” local alternative to the failed Pegasystems platform that was intended to replace a 40-year-old mainframe rules engine used to calculate welfare payments was discovered by Services Australia...