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Open source research institute launches in Canberra

The ACT government will provide half a million dollars over two years to support a new innovation hub focused on furthering research into open source technologies at the University...

Services Aust shuts down questions on its use of spyware

Services Australia has declined to tell Parliament what data it is collecting with controversial Israeli spyware and confirmed it has never been knocked back from a warrant to deploy...

Cath Thompson on the long road to digital trustworthiness

Catherine Thompson had spent a career in corporate procurement roles, among other things, before she landed in 2015 at the Digital Transformation Office. These were heady days for digital...

$2bn hydrogen program criteria splits industry

Peak bodies representing renewable hydrogen are at odds over the minimum production capacity projects should have to be eligible for the federal government’s $2 billion green hydrogen production credit....

Tax Office exits Chinese-owned data centre

After a two-year migration, the Tax Office has removed the last of its data and assets from a Chinese-owned data centre in Sydney, which had long been blacklisted by...

Bipartisan push for tech assessment office

Liberal backbencher Aaron Violi is teaming up with Labor counterpart Dr Daniel Mulino to design a Technology Assessment Office to make information on cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence...

Gig Guide: Inaugural environment data chief named

The inaugural head of Australia’s first independent, national environmental data and information office, dubbed the “Australian Bureau of Statistics for nature”, is Dr Jane Coram. Dr Coram took up...

Tech industry welcomes board, awaits investment mandate

Industry bodies have cautiously welcomed Industry and Science minister Ed Husic’s eight appointments to National Reconstruction Fund board, with some reserving judgement until details on the investment mandate are...

Oracle eyes Canberra’s Secret cloud market

US cloud giant Oracle has unveiled a new physically isolated cloud region in Canberra it says goes further than its competitors are willing to go and could one day...

$19bn sustainable jet fuel opportunity for Australia

A new roadmap highlighting the opportunities that will flow from the creation of a sustainable aviation fuel industry in Australia has been released by national science agency CSIRO and...