Services minister Bill Shorten wants a new approach to his agencies’ policy design and implementation through a more capable public service that takes fewer leads from tech vendors and...
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One of the things still worrying me about robodebt was the attention to detail. By that, I am not referring to the crude system by which hundreds of thousands...
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Main Sequence Ventures raised $450 million for its third investment fund, bringing the venture capital firm’s total funds under management to more than $1 billion for the first time....
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Sydney-based AgTech startup LLEAF on Monday opened its first solar laboratory in Sydney to expand its product offerings, capping an 18 month period that included government backing, its first...
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The Australian government’s cyber experts were not consulted on the awarding of a $23 million grant to an industry body without tender to train thousands of “cyber wardens”, while...
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The future of the ServiceWA app will be considered as part of a new whole-of-government service delivery business case in Western Australia being prepared by Deloitte. The ServiceWA Future...
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The federal government has abandoned a long running upgrade to the system used to calculate welfare recipients’ eligibility and payments after pouring $191 million into the tech project over...
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Silicon Quantum Computing has raised $50 million in a Series A round that it says underscores a growing confidence in both the company and wider quantum computing sector, despite...
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Australia’s media watchdog has hired Google Australia’s government relations lead directly from the tech giant, insisting it can manage any conflicts of interests through established processes as it gears...
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Kathryn Campbell has resigned from the Department of Defence just days after being suspended without pay from her almost $900,000-a-year special advisor role to the AUKUS submarine project. Defence...
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Foreign-owned companies selling to Defence should have mandatory requirements to work with local industry partners, according to the Australian Industry and Defence Network. The Australian Industry and Defence Network...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a deputy secretary from the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance Chris Barrett as the new chair of the Productivity Commission. Announcing the appointment...
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Australia’s fire chiefs anticipate the next generation of space-based fire detection and extinction tools enabled by low-earth orbit satellites may hold the key to mitigating extreme remote wildfires. Extreme...
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NSW Premier Chris Minns and federal Manufacturing minister Tim Ayres will bring together more than 100 representatives from the rail manufacturing supply chain in Penrith on Monday morning as...