Former Defence minister Kim Beazley has called for critical minerals to be included as “another leg” of the AUKUS agreement to break the dependence of Western democracies on China,...
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Australia is a naturally creative country. Creative technology provides an opportunity to combine this natural creativity with cutting-edge technology to create efficient, productive and fun solutions and services across...
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The event that inspired the development of EpiWatch, an AI-driven early warning detection system for epidemics, was the West African ebola outbreak of 2014, according to UNSW professor of...
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Nearly half of all Australian adults and children experience online harm, but barely any are reporting it to the organisation set up by the government to deal with it,...
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Australia has no plans to follow the United States in implementing the “more draconian” trade policies stopping the export of certain sensitive technologies to China, as Prime Minister Anthony...
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The federal government will consider making it illegal to pay the ransom demands of cyber criminals as part of its review of the 2020 national cybersecurity strategy. Home Affairs...
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Australian organisations told they would receive federal funding from a $68 million cybersecurity grant program that closed last year are still waiting to hear if the commitments will be...
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Cybersecurity has been thrust into the spotlight in Australia in recent months. The Optus and Medibank hacks among others have demonstrated the devastating impact a data breach can have....
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Service NSW chief executive Damon Rees will “hand the baton to the next steward” at the end of this year to establish business consulting firm Better As Usual. Mr...
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For most of my time as economist, we have avoided or danced around discussion of industry policy in Australia, adopting a common narrative about not wanting or being able...
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With a mission to connect government, consumers, academia and researchers to deliver a cooperative approach to digital health innovation, the Digital Health CRC is at the forefront of the...
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A $250 million loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility and Export Finance Australia will support the expansion of a lithium mining and processing site in the Pilbara, Western...
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Australia’s competition and consumer regulator has called for sweeping changes to the regulation of digital platforms after warning for years about anti-competitive behaviour and a lack of user protections...
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A new research project between national science agency the CSIRO and Google will seek to better understand blue carbon ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific and Australia through the use of...