Regulation was once a dirty word in tech companies around the world. They argued that if people wanted better smartphones and flying cars, we had to look past dusty...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is on notice to show it has moved past a “cowboy” culture that saw it break procurement rules and fall short of ethical requirements...
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The appointment of a chair and board of directors for the National Reconstruction Fund marks a new phase in the development of the $15 billion co-investment fund that started...
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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...
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A “double standard” has emerged in Australia’s technology regulations, with step-in powers for cyber spooks to take control of a company’s network similar to those at the heart of...
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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...
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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...