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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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COVID has taught us lessons about self-reliance, global supply chain disruption and the possibilities for rapid vaccine development and deployment. As we emerge from the pandemic, do we have...
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RMIT researchers and Sydney cyber startup Tide are claiming a mathematical breakthrough has allowed them to spread system access authority across a network using decentralised keys, meaning there is...
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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...