US management consulting firm McKinsey saw an almost 50 per cent drop in federal government revenue last financial year, as the surge of contracts it experienced early in the...
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With more worrying signs about business innovation in Australia, the Productivity Commission has proposed shifting policy focus from incentives, grants and public research to create our own inventions to...
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A startup spun out of the Australian National University is looking to solve one of the world’s biggest environmental problems thanks to its plastic-eating enzyme that can make the...
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The federal government is working through whether new Medicare numbers will be given to victims of the Optus breach after it emerged the telco failed to notify that the...
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There are many high-profile case histories that demonstrate the huge benefits for regulated entities and their customers of the effective use of technology and data in the regulatory sphere....
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A crack team of bureaucrats from across the federal government has been assembled to support what is shaping up to be the most extensive audit of myGov since it...
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For the first time since 2018 Australia’s digital competitiveness ranking has improved, rising six places to 14th, although this remains below the country’s fifth place peak in 2015. The...
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Delivering the final maiden speech of the Forty-Seventh Parliament, former Accenture managing director and Kevin Rudd economic adviser Dr Andrew Charlton said the government must support the uptake of...
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The cost of federal government contracts awarded to KPMG leapt to $373 million last financial year, with the consulting giant pocketing more than a million dollars a day from...
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AbilityMap founders Mike Erlin and Kevin Chandler were trying to solve the same problem from a different direction. It was a decade ago when the pair first met, and...
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A review of Australia’s national science and research priorities has been announced by Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic to ensure they are “fit for purpose”. Australia’s chief...
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Australia urgently needs dedicated facial recognition laws to stop the current slide towards a surveillance state and reduce the serious risk of error in high stakes applications like policing,...
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A new Senate inquiry will examine the nature and extent of the influence of foreign-owned Big Tech companies Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon have on the Australian market...
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On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in...