Australia should consider “strategic needs” ahead of a one-size-fits-all income threshold to help fill the technology skills shortage, according to the country’s largest professional association for technology workers. In...
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US consulting giant Deloitte has landed a $5 million pay rise from the Australian Digital Health Agency for its work on a new platform for clinicians to exchange and...
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Some of Australia’s biggest local tech firms, including Canva, TechnologyOne and SafetyCulture, are eyeing expansion amid the wave of job cuts sweeping through the sector following higher interest rates...
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Queensland’s battery industry could be worth $1.3 billion to the state’s economy in less than a decade, according to a new discussion paper commissioned to inform Queensland’s first Battery...
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Three law firms are pursuing compensation potentially worth billions of dollars for the Medibank customers affected by a massive data breach at the health insurer, while an investigation into...
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As the government considers reviving the controversial facial recognition legislation needed to expand an identity matching scheme, Home Affairs has awarded a $37 million contract to Fujitsu to manage...
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The removal of digital voting in New South Wales has left an “equity and inclusion vacuum” for the state’s blind and vision impaired voters, according to Vision Australia, which...
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The Hawke-era Cooperative Research Centres program has delivered big returns on government investment for three decades and should be continued with increased funding, according to a review of the...
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Amazon Web Services has launched its first Australian Local Zone in Western Australia, promising improved latency for customers, while the eastern states wait for its second Australian cloud infrastructure...
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The New South Wales government is searching for investment partners to help it establish an RNA fund that will provide millions to drug and vaccine research and development in...
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Drones and autonomous vehicles will soon be deployed to Antarctica to aid the Australian Antarctic Program’s study of whales and geophysics, allowing for the collection of data otherwise inaccessible...
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Spending on contractors at New South Wales’ biggest government agencies has doubled since the start of the pandemic, climbing from just over $600 million to more than $1.2 billion...
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The bill for the federal government’s automated cyber threat sharing platform has skyrocketed to more than $59,000 a day because of the expansion into bidirectional sharing, increased industry participation,...
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Sun Cable, the company developing one of the world’s biggest solar and battery projects, has abruptly entered voluntary administration, casting doubt on the future of the $35 billion proposal....