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Estimates on DTA ‘structural problem’

The Digital Transformation Agency’s inability to intervene in doomed $34 million biometric project inside the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission points to “structural problems” in the agency, according to Labor...

Questions for data rights regime

The government was clearly “not listening” to the concerns surrounding the Consumer Data Right after it rejected an extension to an inquiry into the new scheme, shadow digital economy...

NBN result paints a grim picture

NBN Co has released lacklustre first-half results for financial year 2018/19 and the spectre of the roll-out continuing into 2022 is now very real. NBN Co continues to struggle...

The future of the Growth Centres

When the Industry Growth Centres initiative was launched by then Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane in 2014, it was aimed at encouraging Australian business...

R&D, export rules get fresh praise

One tech leader’s recent return from Silicon Valley to a base in Perth after 27 years has brought with it some fresh perspectives on what is working well in...

Google push for Western Sydney

Shadow minister for the digital economy Ed Husic has joined with Google Australia and the education charity Schools Plus to support the expansion of a STEM education initiative in...

Parliament cyber attack details

A nation-state was behind the recent cyber attack on the federal Parliament, and the networks of both major parties were also compromised, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed. Speaking...

Welcome back Arthur Sinodinos

Former Industry Minister and Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos returned to Parliament this week after surviving a battle with cancer, and eager to make a further contribution to the Parliament...

Labor commits to encryption reform

Federal Labor would work with industry to fix controversial encryption legislation and pass the baseline recommendations of the Parliament’s joint committee on intelligence and security if it elected to...

Labor tries to fix encryption bill

The Opposition has attempted to fix to the highly controversial encryption legislation that it passed into law late last year, but further amendments won’t be debated until April at the...

Data rights bill hits parliament

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has introduced draft Consumer Data Right laws to the Federal Parliament, A structural reform that he says will create competition as well as incentives for entrepreneurs...

LaunchVic reveals open funding round

LaunchVic has revealed its first funding round of the year as the agency begins discussions with the Victorian government for further funding of its own. The organisation’s tenth funding...

DTA pumps brakes on blockchain

Government agencies should look at the actual problem they are trying to solve rather than jumping to embrace new technologies like blockchain, the Digital Transformation Agency has warned. The...

Deliveroo calls for new work Act

Deliveroo’s call for new laws and regulation surrounding the gig economy is just “throwing workers a bone to try to shut them up” while doing nothing to fix the...