Some cryptocurrency products may be “fundamentally incompatible with the existing financial services regulatory framework”, according to Treasury, as it begins consulting on the government’s token mapping exercise. Treasury released...
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A relatively small group of suppliers have dominated the Digital Marketplace set up by the federal government to encourage competition, new data shows. Just 12 per cent of its...
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The Department of Defence will pay consultants more than $20,000 every day for the next 18 months to test the Navy’s cyber hygiene after years of government uplift programs....
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It has been a massive year for the manufacturing startup Hysata, a deep tech company that is commercialising breakthrough Australian hydrogen electrolyser technology in support of the emerging Green...
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The key priority for any future development work on the myGov platform must be on improving accessibility for the people who need government services the most. That means Australians...
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Natural seawater could feasibly be an “almost infinite” feedstock for green hydrogen following a research breakthrough led by scientists at the University of Adelaide. The team used a catalyst...
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Industry and Science minister Ed Husic has fired the starter’s gun on a federal drive to construct a more vertically integrated and value-added batteries industry in Australia, opening an...
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The value of amendments to existing government contracts skyrocketed to $28 billion last year, a seven-fold increase over the decade, according to new analysis of AusTender data. The use...
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The federal government should “urgently” pass laws that give rise to an economy-wide digital identity scheme, as well as prevent government and private sector organisations from storing copies of...
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Four of New South Wales’ highest emitting manufacturers have been awarded almost $1 million in grants to accelerate the deployment of GreenTech and other decarbonisation projects. Chemical manufacturer Orica,...
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The Albanese government’s plan to pump billions into industry development, housing and transform the electricity grid needs to be “phased appropriately”, while further off-budget vehicles should be avoided, the...
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The accuracy of the tools used in Alzheimer’s research can now be more easily compared thanks to work by researchers at CSIRO and the Queensland University of Technology. Software...
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The Albanese government’s $15 billion industrialisation investment should be used to build a handful of “internationally significant precincts” in strategic locations around the country, according to Australia’s key business...
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New South Wales residents will be given the choice of adding their Medicare card to the Service NSW app and viewing their digital driver’s licence in myGov after the...