Long-time tech and innovation advocate Ed Husic will be Australia’s new Industry Minister after he retained his spot in the new Labor government’s Cabinet, with Clare O’Neil to serve...
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The second round of the new version of the export market grants scheme has been “paused” following the election of the Labor government. Less than a fortnight ago –...
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A “large volume” of highly sensitive health data has been compromised as part of a hack of a cloud-based client management system for NDIS service providers, with a sample...
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The Australian government’s Special Adviser for Low Emissions Technology Dr Alan Finkel remains committed to hydrogen as an essential tool for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, despite market development being...
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The chief executive of FinTech Australia, Andrew Porter, has resigned less than four months into the job, saying his passion lies in building companies more than representing them. Rehan...
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The Australian hydrogen industry group has called on the new Labor government to “create a market for hydrogen” through new policy, warning market forces will be too slow to...
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The New South Wales government will give a multi-million-dollar tax break and infrastructure subsidy to Australian giant Cochlear to expand its 40-year-old Sydney manufacturing facilities. The state government claims...
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A number of Big Tech firms have released their latest reports under Australia’s voluntary misinformation code as they face looming further regulation on the issue. The Australian Code of...
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CSIRO has appointed Dharmini Robertson as the new science counsellor for the United States and Canada. She will be based at the Australian embassy in Washington DC during her...
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Professor Glyn Davis, an esteemed innovation and public policy expert and former chair of the Australia 2020 Summit, has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Department of...
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More than 20 per cent of Amazon’s shareholders voting for a proposal to force the tech firm to provide greater tax transparency provides a “strong signal” and should encourage the...
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The Department of Defence has unveiled details of a planned approach to market to transform its information technology operating environment to progressively establish diverse multi-vendor ‘Secret’ Cloud Services hosted...
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We use internet-connected devices to access our bank accounts, keep our transport systems moving, communicate with our colleagues, listen to music, undertake commercially sensitive tasks – and order pizza....
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In a celebration of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the tech sector, #TechDiversity held its annual awards night on Thursday to recognise and pay tribute to the champions of...