Opposition services minister Paul Fletcher says the Digital Transformation Agency’s role has been diminished as part of a backwards step on government technology and digital services that will need...
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Clauses in existing legislation that let Commonwealth departmental secretaries outsource ‘decision-making authority’ to computers is like leaving a “hand grenade with the pin out”, a regulation and governance specialist...
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University of Sydney researchers are claiming a world first after using quantum technologies to observe a chemical process that occurs in a tiny fraction of a millisecond and has...
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On a day of dramatic senior leadership changes at Fortescue Metals Group, former CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Fortescue Metals...
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There would be few times in history where Australian industry faced the intensity of the challenges facing the nation today. But you would hardly know it. Despite the challenges,...
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The Albanese government has scrapped a major upgrade of the country’s business registers after an independent review found it would cost up to $2.2 billion to complete the project...
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The National Reconstruction Fund is about to deploy $15 billion into the types of deep technologies capable of safeguarding our future economy. Yet this $15 billion is just the...
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The carbon footprint of the federal government’s vast technology estate should be measured as a first step toward incentivising agencies to redirect billions in spending to energy-efficient clouds and...
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The federal government is being urged to establish a new fund to support the commercialisation of diagnostics manufacturing in Australia to reduce dependence on US and European supply chains...
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Technology companies that are spun-out from deep-pocketed universities should not be an investment focus for the National Reconstruction Fund, according to former Victorian minister for small business, innovation and...
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Business investment in R&D has grown for the first time in almost a decade, registering a 14 per cent increase in nominal terms, while overall proportional spend has reached...
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Most of the world’s biggest online publishers are not blocking bots from crawling their content to train generative AI, with some notable exceptions including the ABC and Australia’s regional...
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The Australian Research Council has appointed Professor Gavin Reid as its executive director for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and earth sciences. Professor Reid is a bioanalytical chemist at the University...
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Imagine if you could choose to have a digital identity established with a ‘trusted digital identity provider’ — and use that to apply for a passport, mobile phone, bank...