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Industry bristles as open banking stutters

Australia’s FinTech and neobank industry is growing frustrated at the slow pace and arduous requirements of the Consumer Data Right (CDR) – once heralded as a landmark reform –...

Disappointment as LithiumAus moves production overseas

It is so disappointing when you have covered an emerging technology and manufacturing story for years when suddenly you find out that the company you have been covering decides...

Bronwyn Weir on building regulation compliance

There have been numerous headlines in recent years about poorly constructed residential buildings and the resulting fallout for owners and residents. Among the most notorious were the 2014 fire...

SKA telescope gets $387m shot in the arm

The Prime Minister Scott Morrison has committed a further $387 million to the massive Square Kilometre Array radio telescope in Western Australia’s Murchison region, including $64 million that will...

No ‘fairness’ in the harm caused by algorithms

Australia is racing into the next decades of the digital era wilfully blind and ill-prepared as to the impact of algorithms on its citizens. I say wilfully blind because...

Manufacturers look to reshore operations: Report

More than half of Australian manufacturers are looking to reshore their operations locally in the next two years, a new report has found, as sovereign capability in the sector...

5G, trusted networks and a future roadmap

Visionary businesses in Australia are starting to plan for real-time action (and reactions) – from products or service delivery to responding to market disruptions. At Verizon, we are having...

Delays cloud transparency over govt tech spending

There is a significant lack of transparency around the unprecedented jump in government IT investment, with ongoing delays to an “urgent” internal audit and a year long freeze of...

PwC to run APS digital skills comms campaign

Accounting giant PwC has won a contract to run a communications campaign to improve awareness and membership of the federal government’s public sector digital skills scheme. The Digital Transformation...

Robert’s influence on govt service delivery to remain

Stuart Robert will still have significant influence over government service delivery and digital transformation despite a new ministerial position, with ongoing roles in two major Cabinet committees. Mr Robert...

National Cabinet developing data-sharing agreement

Federal and state governments will work on a new intergovernmental agreement on data-sharing, as plans to greatly increase the sharing of public sector-held information continue. The intergovernmental agreement, which...

Sydney student’s quantum code picked up by AWS

A University of Sydney honours student’s quantum computing code is attracting global attention and will be used by cloud giant AWS and in leading US universities’ quantum programs. Pablo...

‘Moral obligation’: Menulog to employ riders

Menulog’s announcement that it will move to an “employment model” within years and pay its workers the minimum wage and superannuation has been heralded as a “watershed moment” for...