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Industry split on govt’s cyber sovereignty plan

Local cyber industry stakeholders have welcomed the focus on sovereign capability in the federal government’s 2023-2030 Cybersecurity Strategy, but there are differing views on the how effective the government’s...

QuantX secures $750,000 from Next Gen Tech Fund’s ghost

Adelaide-based firm QuantX Labs has landed a $750,000 contract with the Department of Defence to improve the security of its quantum position, navigation, and timing capability. The project aims...

Adjusting R&D Tax Incentive would turbocharge research

As a former Director of R&D for major multinationals in Australia and in Holland, and founder of a successful technology startup in Australia, I can claim a unique perspective...

We are fumbling Australia’s digital sovereignty

Our government isn’t delivering the digital capabilities that Australia needs to meet the challenges and opportunities of the digital age. In August 2023, the ATO’s troubled Modernising Business Registers...

Australia shifts the goal posts in new cyber strategy

The federal government has adjusted its cyber aspirations from being the world’s best to being among the leaders, a recognition that several factors will be beyond Australia’s control in...

NSW digital fund narrows focus for last $100m

The remaining $100 million in the NSW Digital Restart Fund will go to solutions specifically for housing supply, frontline service delivery, energy and the environment, accessibility and cyber, under...

Online Safety Act changes target child safety and AI

Amendments to the Online Safety Act are incoming, as government begins consultation on proposed reforms to the Basic Online Safety Expectations which include new measures related to child safety,...

The ‘silent’ pandemic we need to take seriously

Pandemic fatigue, blunting our willingness to take-on a public health emergency, is real. So for all that we’ve endured through the extreme trials and tribulations of COVID-19 over the...

Committee bombshell: NDIA has been operating unlawfully

The long-awaited report from the Parliamentary committee Inquiry into the Culture and Capability of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) has landed. And it is steaming. After ten years...

NSW govt shuts down media access to digital ‘showcase’

The state government is shutting down media access to its annual tech event, barring journalists from reporting on senior officials’ presentations about how technology is being deployed at some...

$587m cyber uplift includes sovereign capability package

Cybersecurity minister Clare O’Neil has released the Australian government’s long-anticipated cybersecurity strategy, a seven-year plan to make Australia “a world leader in cyber security” by 2030. The plan includes...

Superbugs loom in antimicrobial innovation gap

Australia’s MedTech and Pharmaceutical industry growth centre MTPConnect is warning antimicrobial resistant ‘superbugs’ could cause 10,000 deaths annually by 2050 if immediate action to correct a research and development...