The Western Australian government is facing renewed calls to introduce public sector privacy laws following a spate of high-profile data breaches in the private sector and questions over data...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will retain key critical minerals initiatives announced by the Coalition in March but will reduce the competitive grants on offer and stretch research funding, as...
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will provide $45 million in support for a renewable energy storage project in Broken Hill and more than $400,000 for a feasibility study to...
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A New South Wales parliamentary committee has “strongly endorsed” an inquiry into the development and use of artificial intelligence next year after referral by Customer Service and Digital Government...
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A cloud-based medical imaging startup from Canberra has been named Startup of the Year at the Australian Information Industry Association’s annual iAwards program. Aurabox was founded by chief executive...
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Four out of five individuals that participated in the InnovationAus.com 2022 Government Procurement Survey believe the process of selling technology to the federal government remains complex, difficult and slow....
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A cyber-attack against Australia’s largest private health insurer and subsequent threats to sell the stolen customer information has been described as a “dog act” by Home Affairs minister Clare...
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The ClimateTech sector represents a massive opportunity, for no other reason than it to addresses massive climate challenges. But despite this, activity in the ClimateTech sector remains “so far...
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The Victorian Labor government will introduce a 95 per cent renewables target for 2035 alongside $1 billion in investment to build state-controlled renewable energy projects, if it is successfully...
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Australia’s privacy and information watchdog failed to meet key performance criteria around freedom of information and privacy investigations, as its workload jumped and staff attrition rate doubled the public...
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Sapien Cyber is very much a tale of what can happen when the right people and right ideas come together at the right time. That’s according to Sapien Cyber...
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Digital voting has been written out of New South Wales electoral law following the Electoral Commissioner’s decision to scrap the iVote system until after the 2023 state election, as...
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It is perhaps not widely known that every courtroom in the country is almost always open to the public. Whether it is hearing a murder trial, a fraud case,...
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The University of Canberra will establish an innovation hub next year for researching and testing cybersecurity technologies under a new partnership with Cisco, making it the 10th Australian university...