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EY’s GovERP work grows $43m in five months

Ernst & Young will be paid another $7.2 million over the next three months to ramp up work on the federal government’s enterprise resource planning system less than three...

McKinsey behind govt’s new cyber strategy

Controversial global consulting giant McKinsey will have a key role in the development of Australia’s cybersecurity strategy, 18 months after the government was widely criticised for using the company...

Productivity Commission backs open access push

Removing the paywalls on research literature would boost Australian innovation, according to the Productivity Commission, which is recommending the Albanese government give consideration to the world-first open access model...

NSW Labor to explore stopgap for digital voting

NSW Labor will investigate an interim digital voting solution to allow blind and low vision Australians to cast a verifiable ballot in state and local government elections before 2027...

Rover builders revealed as NASA leaders charm Aus space sector

High ranking officials from America’s space program have called for deeper ties with Australia, including Australian astronauts flying on United States’ missions, during a rare visit this week that...

Designs on a sustainable scale for people and place

For policy makers, designers, educators, community and industry leaders, tech professionals and a diverse range of stakeholders, the Data Informed Design Conference (DiD23) is the place to be. That’s...

Push for sovereign capability may enable rent-seeking: PC

The Productivity Commission has cast doubt on the effectiveness of greater ‘sovereign capability’ in boosting productivity and has advocated for increased liberalisation of trade to boost innovation diffusion. A...

Give private sector access to govt data: Productivity Commission

The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...

Commercialisation and Defence are not mutually exclusive

There is no doubt the world has entered a more complex and potentially dangerous era. And according to Sarah Pavillard, that means commercial researchers and tech innovators will increasingly...