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Lithium exports triple to $19bn in a year

The value of Australian lithium exports are expected to triple in real-terms this financial year, from $5.2 billion to $18.6 billion, according to the latest figures published by the...

Tech giants in govt’s tax reform firing line

Tech giants moving the “apparent location” of their “bits and bytes” production to minimise tax will face tighter rules under the Albanese government’s multinational tax reform package, which took...

Online age verification ‘roadmap’ with government

A roadmap charting a way forward on Australia’s proposed mandatory age verification regime for online pornography has been delivered to the federal government after almost two years of development...

Small telco exemptions are hurting retirees

The number of retirees having to pay high monthly fees for underperforming fixed connections to the internet is increasing at an alarming rate thanks to a small provider exemption...

Aussie developers join class action against Google, Apple

Australian app developers have joined a class action lawsuit against Big Tech giants Google and Apple alleging abuse of power in their respective app stores. The class actions, being...

Lockheed Martin lands Defence’s $4bn sovereign satellite deal

US defence giant Lockheed Martin has fought off Airbus, Boeing and Optus to secure a lucrative contract to deliver Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation. The Department of...

DTA to renegotiate $782m SAP deal after 8x increase

The federal government is preparing to renegotiate its software licensing arrangement with German tech giant SAP, after one contract connected with the deal ballooned almost eight times its original...

Defence, space and the drive toward national self-reliance

Debates about the notional definition of sovereign capability has entered mainstream policy debates over the past two years. The impact that Covid and the economic crisis that it wrought...

The pause AI movement is remarkable, but won’t work

The open letter calling for an immediate six-month pause in the AI development arms race and signed by more than 1600 tech luminaries, researchers and responsible technology advocates under...

Gig Guide: Robyn Denholm joins SafetyCulture board

Tesla and Tech Council of Australia chair Robyn Denholm has joined the board of local tech company SafetyCulture, after serving as an advisor since late 2021. Ms Denholm joins...

Data61 puts AI ethics into practice

After developing an artificial intelligence ethics framework long before the likes of ChatGPT and BARD, efforts are afoot at the data arm of Australia’s national science agency to help...