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Gig Guide: NSW data guru Ian Oppermann out

New South Wales’ first-ever chief data scientist Ian Oppermann is hanging up his boots after more than eight years in the role to join the technology advisory firm set...

NSW resetting AI ethics guide for national bar

The New South Wales government has bolstered its artificial intelligence guardrails, adding new guidance for public servants using the generative tools like ChatGPT while redrafting its nation leading framework...

‘Empty words’: Top three digital govt goal scrapped

The Albanese government has scrapped the Coalition’s lofty goal of Australia becoming one of the top three digital governments in the world by 2025 in its first digital and...

Businesses face fines for not reporting ransomware details

The government would fine businesses that fail to report ransomware attacks, including sensitive information about their systems, to cyber agencies under the initial proposal for its upcoming notification scheme....

Australia’s largest grid-forming battery green-lit

Australia’s largest grid-forming battery will be built in the New South Wales Hunter region from early next year after a final investment decision was reached by AGL Energy on...

Melbourne nanotech hub gets ahead of the quantum revolution

“Shaping the future of quantum technologies” is how Frank Yao describes the role of Innofocus’s newly minted 1,000 square metre nanofabrication hub in Melbourne.   His team is on a...

Universities Australia names new leader

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...

myGov audit response kicks funding decision down the road

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...

‘Risk allocation’ left out of Australia’s AI debate

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...

Bart Mellish is Qld’s new digital minister

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...

Australia creates ‘strategic’ critical minerals list

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...

ACCC granted new powers to strengthen Big Tech news code

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...