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Govt mulls digital ID for online age verification

Digital identity remains a live consideration for Australia’s proposed mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content, as the Albanese government mulls the release of the roadmap...

$80m government cyber hubs pilot axed

A Coalition-era program to centralise federal government networks through hubs in Canberra’s biggest agencies has been axed after an $80 million pilot, with a series of new initiatives to...

Ambitious ‘homegrown’ plan needed for robotics

Australia’s upcoming national robotics strategy must look to turn the promising but fledgling industry into a $50 billion automation juggernaut by the end of the decade, the industry’s peak...

DTA loses data sovereignty scheme duties

Responsibility for the federal government’s troubled data sovereignty scheme has been stripped from the Digital Transformation Agency in a shakeup prompted by the creation of Australia’s new cybersecurity office....

Tax critical minerals exports to build sovereign capability: AWU

A “significant, punitive tax” on critical minerals exports should be implemented to encourage the development of domestic processing and generate revenue for investments across the value chain, according to...

Resources minister eyes dramatic scale up of offshore CCS

The federal government will develop a regulatory framework for carbon, capture, and storage projects, with Resources minister Madeleine King on Tuesday reiterating her support for the technology. Ms King...

NTT Data loses myki deal to Conduent in $1.7bn shakeup

American business services provider Conduent will replace NTT Data as the operator of Victoria’s public transport ticketing system from December after securing a $1.7 billion contract to run and...

Towards a new mission economy for Australia

Since last month’s launch of Minderoo’s XPrize Wildfire, a four-year global competition that will award $16 million in prize money to teams able to demonstrate fully autonomous capabilities to...

Resources tech accelerator takes in 20 METS startups

20 startups and scaleups on Monday made the cut for a $500,000 Queensland government-supported accelerator program that has helped launch companies like Gilmore Space Technologies and Universal Field Robotics...