Addressing indigenous high-school students at the Clontarf Foundation in Townsville last year Canberra Raiders National Rugby League (NRL) coach Ricky Stuart said that when faced with adversity you can...
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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and software giant Atlassian will announce funding details for the massive Sydney Innovation and Technology Precinct near Central train station on Thursday morning, including plans...
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The great English philosopher and satirist John Alexander Smith once addressed the entering class at Oxford with the advice that the sole purpose of an education is to be...
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The federal government’s highly controversial encryption laws have damaged the growth of Australia’s tech sector and could hamper the nation’s economic recovery, according to Atlassian. The Australian tech darling...
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There are concerns the government’s rumoured plans to mandate cybersecurity standards in the private sector could lead to SMEs being punished and difficulties around enforcement. Cybersecurity experts and the...
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A public hearing into the federal government’s controversial changes to the research and development tax incentive is set to be held next week, after the inquiry was delayed by...
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Australia’s new cybersecurity strategy was needed “yesterday”, with the government’s recent cyber warning stoke fear and uncertainty around the country, a number of industry experts have said. The Coalition...
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The government’s planned cuts to research and development will hamper Australia’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, while tax incentives for R&D should be paid out early, Labor leader...
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The response to COVID-19 is having a transformational effect on the use of digital technologies in Australia, the United States and many other parts of the world. But the...
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How the government came to be running an unlawful scheme needs to be properly investigated, crossbench senator Rex Patrick said, as the Opposition officially backed calls for a Royal...
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Albert Einstein famously said, “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” And if ever there was a need for new thinking...
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The Australian government has been urged to follow the footsteps of the UK and ditch its contact tracing app in favour of the model provided by Apple and Google,...
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The remarkable intervention of the Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday in the mainstream cybersecurity conversation certainly had its desired effect. Through the use of the Prime Ministerial megaphone,...
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CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall was not everyone’s first pick to lead the national science agency when he was appointed to the role in 2015. But the CSIRO board...