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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...

$11m agtech incubator to grow drought resilience startups

Australia’s first drought resilience startup incubator will run this year, housing eight agtechs and providing assistance to nearly 100 others. With almost $11 million in federal funding, the incubator...

Countdown for PM’s science prize nominations

Time is running out to nominate the work of Australia’s top innovators, scientists and educators for the Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science, which closes in less than a month....

Slow NRF ‘not meeting expectations’

The Albanese government’s flagship industry support program has received hundreds of approaches for investment despite lacking a formal application process, months after it was declared “open for business”. The...

Huge holes in NSW govt IT access, cybersecurity

The latest review of New South Wales government agencies’ cybersecurity has revealed a lack of progress and cast more doubt on the impact of state’s dedicated cyber agency, which...

Gig Guide: Biercuk leaves USyd quantum lab

Q-CTRL founder and chief executive Professor Michael Biercuk is stepping away from his role at the University of Sydney to fully commit to the global growth of his business....

Services Australia embarks on massive networking reset

Services Australia will replace the network that connects its workforce for the first time in more than a decade in response to the growth in cloud-based tools and the...

New ethics code adds to govt supplier scrutiny

Federal suppliers vying for $80 billion in annual contracts will need to demonstrably manage conflicts of interest, protect workers and the environment, and pay tax under a new ethics...

Industry Growth Program appoints familiar new advisers

The federal government has appointed the first 17 advisers for its new Industry Growth Program, many of which delivered similar services under the Coalition’s Entrepreneurs Programme. Of the 17...

Most federal govt agencies adopting AI without a policy

More than half of all federal government agencies using artificial intelligence last year adopted the technology without creating policies to govern its use, raising fresh concerns about the system...

ServiceWA app breaks free of logins after user complaints

The Western Australian government has overhauled its ServiceWA app to make it more “user friendly”, with the requirement that users login with myGovID to access a range of services...