The federal government must reinstate the position of Minister for Cybersecurity as part of the updated 2020 national Cyber Security Strategy, the Opposition and industry figures have said. The...
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Four years after it was unveiled as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the CSIRO is preparing to shutter its $20 million entrepreneur-focused science accelerator program known...
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The federal government has begun negotiating a new data-sharing agreement with the US, amid concerns about whether the recently passed encryption laws will jeopardise these talks, and the impact...
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The government-imposed staffing cap at its primary science agency has put innovation “under threat”, according to the Opposition. The Coalition’s Average Staffing Level cap, introduced in 2015-16 with an...
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The Australian government has ramped up its fight against the big global tech companies and the various encryption services the offer as part of a push to pressure Facebook...
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The government has no idea how to move the NBN forward if the Communication Minister Paul Fletcher’s speech at the CEDA conference last month is any indication. After bashing...
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A prominent US national security whistleblower who had his speech at a government-sponsored cybersecurity conference in Melbourne cancelled – along with the speech of an Australian academic – says...
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The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has called on government to expand its remit to include complaints about Facebook and Google so it can provide “access to justice” for Australian users....
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Australia’s home-grown technology sector is half the size of our global peers as a percentage of gross domestic product, four times smaller than the US (as a percentage of...
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Outsourcing public sector work and calling in the contractors is often a “timely, cost-effective” option made necessary by the staffing cap and a lack of internal tech expertise, according...
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The federal government’s arbitrary cap on public sector employee numbers is “severely undermining” its science and innovation efforts, according to the CSIRO staff association. In a submission to a...
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The federal government is preparing to hand out $182 million to potential partners to help deliver and promote its Entrepreneurs’ Programme after a significant refocusing of the flagship scheme....
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It is more than a year since Premier Gladys Berejiklian stood with Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar in Sydney to unveil the city’s ambition to build an innovation and technology...
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A number of Victorian hospitals have been hit by a “serious cyber incident”, with patient records and information still inaccessible and entire systems left offline. The Victorian government confirmed...