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...
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The corporate regulator has taken up compliance duties on the Director ID scheme, contacting company directors who are yet to obtain one and had ignored formal directions to apply....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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“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...
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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...