The Opposition has accused Industry minister Christian Porter of neglecting his portfolio and doing the “bare minimum” after he failed to speak on two pieces of legislation in his...
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Opinion: A final report into the notoriously murky and concentrated digital advertising market should now be sitting on the Treasurer’s desk. The report, which was due by August 31, contains how...
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Victoria’s Stonnington City Council is the latest Australian organisation to fall prey to a cyber incident, forcing systems offline and some staff to take annual leave while the issue...
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Accenture has landed contracts with the tax office worth more than $70 million, including one which will see the Irish-domiciled multinational consultancy firm paid more than $5.5 million per...
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The competition regulator says Australia’s merger and acquisition laws are out of step with global standards and without reform will harm competition, innovation, and productivity. Competition tsar Rod Sims...
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Indigenous knowledge of astronomy is now starting to be recognised for its complexity, according to Indigenous astronomer, astrophysicist, science communicator and Gamilaraay woman, Karlie Noon. Ms Noon is an...
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The Western Australian government’s 2021-22 State budget is investing in manufacturing including green steel, green hydrogen and battery metals, with the establishment of a $100 million Investment Attraction and...
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Professor Reg Coutts, one of six expert panelists who helped envisage the original National Broadband Network (NBN), has passed away. Professor Coutts passed away peacefully in hospital in Adelaide...
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Labor, the Greens and Independent senator Rex Patrick have called for more enforceable conditions on some of the trillions of dollars in foreign investment in Australia, warning overseas companies...
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Opinion: The verdict is in: if you’ve been a victim of a ransomware attack, you will almost certainly be required to report the breach to the Privacy Commissioner and...
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Legislation that hands new powers to intelligence agencies to spy on Australians sailed through Parliament in just hours following a five-day inquiry by the national security committee, in a...
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The likes of Apple and Google could be further regulated as the federal government embarks on an overhaul of the Australian payments regulatory framework. It comes after the Treasurer received...
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The federal government was warned early this year that its $16 million COVIDSafe contact tracing app was ineffective in “very high-risk settings” and was wasting the time of state...
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The Australian Space Agency should be made a permanent statutory authority and be given funding that is more in line with comparable countries like Canada, the head of Australia’s...