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It’s not about the news: It’s techno politics

I am forced to live in two parallel worlds. One world is served by an expensive and unreliable NBN where on the weekend in Canberra the speed was 18Mbps...

Govt launches $26.5m cyber skills grant program

Grants of up to $3 million are on offer for cybersecurity training programs as part of a $26.5 million national cybersecurity strategy initiative officially launched by the federal government...

Mandatory credit reporting scheme finally passes

A mandatory comprehensive credit reporting will be in place in Australia from July after legislation underpinning the scheme finally passed Parliament, more than three years after it was first...

Cybersecurity and the privilege of using data

Every organisation should give every employee privileged access to its IT systems. No, that’s not an edict to elevate the access rights of every user, it’s a reflection that...

Rapid advances in MedTech relies on data access

Thursday February 4 is the 22nd World Cancer Day. This is particularly significant in the current climate, given the significant challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic for cancer professionals,...

Budget 2021: the best chance to relaunch the RDTI

The upcoming federal budget is an opportunity to relaunch and reform the research and development tax incentive to “restore its profile as the keystone for supporting R&D and innovation”,...

Bing! Microsoft ‘fully supports’ Big Tech-media code

Microsoft has thrown its full support behind the federal government’s media bargaining code, positioning its own search service as able to fill the void left by Google’s proposed withdrawal...

‘Weak, dysfunctional’: Privacy office needs more money

Australia’s privacy office is “weak” and “dysfunctional” and requires significant additional funding and resources to adequately carry out its important roles, according to submissions to the federal government’s Privacy...

Husic on industrial policy in the post-COVID era

When Labor leader Anthony Albanese gave his new Industry and Innovation spokesman Ed Husic his marching orders ahead of the shadow cabinet reshuffle last week, the heavy emphasis was...

Govt won’t budge on Big Tech bargaining code

The federal government will not budge on its controversial Big Tech news media bargaining code, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison staring down significant threats from Facebook and Google ahead...

More work on Vic Salesforce tracing platform

The Victorian government will pay a large tech consultancy nearly $4 million to improve its Salesforce COVID-19 contact tracing platform over the first six months of this year. Under...

Made in Aust: Black Sky’s solid rocket fuel

Queensland-based space company Black Sky Aerospace has successfully launched its first rocket powered by Australian-made solid-state fuel. Black Sky developed an original process for the manufacture of solid rocket...