News

Tech giants keep local market share a secret

Tech giants are unwilling or unable to provide lawmakers with figures on their local market share despite facing new codes of conduct designed to protect competition and consumers. Representatives...

VR stroke training rolled out in regional NSW hospitals

A virtual reality training program will be rolled out across dozens of hospitals in New South Wales to provide hands-on experience to emergency department nurses responding to people presenting...

Voting opens for People’s Choice Award 2023

Voting is now open for the prestigious People’s Choice Award at the InnovationAus Awards for Excellence with some of Australia’s most innovative and fastest-growing companies vying for the honour....

Jacinta Allen shuffles innovation out of Victorian cabinet

Freshly-minted Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen has named her first ministry, shifting deputy Premier Ben Carroll from the Industry and Innovation portfolio to the dual responsibilities as Minister for Education...

Toby Walsh calls for investment push on sovereign AI

Australia is ill-prepared to take advantage of the opportunities being created by artificial intelligence and is not investing sufficiently in sovereign capability to adequately safeguard the national interest, according...

SMEs locked out of govt marketplace for six more months

Startups and smaller tech firms wanting to break into the federal government market will have to wait another six months to do so after the Digital Transformation Agency pushed...

Innovation Leader of the Year: Award finalists

A medical research translation expert, a digital health accelerator chief executive and the CEO of an entrepreneurship school are our finalists in the Innovation Leadership category of the 2023...

Gig Guide: Innovation leader Woodthorpe to chair Cicada

Science and innovation leader Dr Katherine Woodthorpe has been appointed as the new chair of deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations. Dr Woodthorpe replaces outgoing chair Andrew Rothery, who has...

Legacy ‘tech debt’ is strangling govt digital budgets

Citizens rightly expect governments to deliver seamless services, with digital the preferred mode for ease of accessibility and convenience. This is the case whether its for digital drivers’ licenses,...

NSW government slows its roll on digital ID

A pilot program to test New South Wales’ forthcoming decentralised digital identity system is at a standstill, with no new trials of the NSW Digital ID taking place since...

Search begins for inaugural NRF chief executive

The Albanese government has begun its search for an inaugural chief executive to take charge of the new entity overseeing its landmark $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund. Executive search...

Cautious welcome for govt’s planned privacy law upgrade

The government’s planned upgrade of Australia’s privacy law has been backed by the national regulator and cautiously welcomed by advocates and the tech sector after years of debate. The...

Govt backs landmark reforms to Australian privacy law

The federal government has agreed to most of the recommendations in a landmark review of Australia’s privacy law to bring it into the digital age, including a right to...