Global consulting giant McKinsey will be paid more than $1.5 million over three months to help Services Australia ensure it has the “right building blocks in place” for its...
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Defence has restarted its search for a new military-grade geostationary satellite after scrapping a multi-billion-dollar contract with US defence and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin late last year. In a...
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Just like the rest of the world, Australia has arrived at its AI moment. Decisions that get made today about industry development strategies and productivity will have a big...
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Australia is in the grip of a national workforce crisis, with persistent labour shortages hampering essential services, slowing economic growth and creating knock-on effects across nearly every industry. While...
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Canada scrapped its digital services tax targeting US technology firms late on Sunday, just hours before it was due to take effect, in a bid to advance stalled trade...
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The federal Finance department has given itself another two weeks to decide whether to let embattled consulting giant PwC resume bidding for Commonwealth government work in Canberra. PwC Australia...
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The National Reconstruction Fund remains without an investment strategy almost two years after it was established, according to the first audit of the entity in charge of the $15...
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The Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the US expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with...
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A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry will examine competition in online property settlements in the wake of a series of technical issues at incumbent eConveyancing platform PEXA. The inquiry,...
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The appointment of AirTrunk chief executive Robin Khuda and Telstra CEO Vicki Brady to the board of the Business Council of Australia flags a strengthening pivot at the BCA...
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Telco stalwart and founder of Telstra Ventures (now Titanium Ventures) Deena Shiff has been appointed independent chair of the Communications Alliance, commencing 1 July. Ms Shiff, who replaces outgoing...
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From grey zone coercion to regional surveillance competition, the Indo-Pacific is now in live contest. Yet our national innovation posture is not structured to mitigate emerging risks or leverage...
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Apple on Thursday changed rules and fees in its App Store in the European Union after the bloc’s antitrust regulators ordered it to remove commercial barriers to sending customers...
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Economic modelling that shows Australia could unlock $6 billion from quantum technology by 2045 is a “massive underestimate”, according to one of the country’s foremost experts in the field....