News content will return to Facebook for Australian users after the federal government agreed to make a series of last minute changes to the media bargaining code in order...
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As a kid growing up in rural NSW in the 1970’s, watching Irish Comedian Dave Allen on ABC TV was a family event. One sketch I remember vividly: Allen,...
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The nation’s peak science lobby has called on government to use the expected $2.4 billion in savings from changes to the Research and Development Tax Incentive to fund the...
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Australia has made good progress decarbonising the electricity market, but one of the most glaring of omissions in Australia’s national climate stance remains our tardiness on taking action in...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has entered contracts worth more than $20 million with recruiters and HR firms for temporary staff in the current financial year alone, with ongoing concerns...
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Facebook has signed up to a voluntary Big Tech code aimed at combating online misinformation just days after blocking all legitimate news content across its platform. Along with Google,...
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The Internet of Things Alliance Australia (IoTAA) will unveil Australia’s first ever IoT Security Awareness Guides during a special webinar event on Wednesday morning covering the trinity of security,...
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Artificial intelligence technology could provide a solution to the growing challenge of securing access for remote office workers, without creating unreasonable hurdles to them working effectively and productively. With...
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The Federal Court has handed down its largest ever promoter penalty of nearly $23 million against a former research and development tax incentive adviser for systemic abuse of the...
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The first program under the $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative – this one focused on the space sector – is open for business, with government calling for the first...
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With the amendments added in Parliament this week, the media bargaining code is a giant nothing burger. Facebook has taken that nothing burger and turned it into a global-scale...
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As mentioned in previous analyses the way that the government has approached its battle with the digital giants has been flawed from the beginning. True its tough stand had...
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Australia’s largest company by market capitalisation, biotechnology manufacturer CSL has powered ahead in the first half of the financial year reporting a net profit after tax up 44 per...
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The Victorian government has paid tech giant Microsoft nearly $6 million to use its COVID-19 vaccination management platform, with the vaccine rollout set to start next week. The Microsoft...