A Senate inquiry into the Department of Defence’s support for local industry has wrapped up without offering any recommendations to boost sovereign capability or address procurement deficiencies. The Senate...
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The Industry department has quietly published a response to a parliamentary inquiry into advanced manufacturing, dismissing a recommendation that government appoint a national commissioner to oversee policy and program...
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A generational review of Australia’s ailing research and development system will be led by Tesla chair Robyn Denholm, who will develop options to close a multi-billion dollar gap with...
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The NSW government’s devolved procurement framework will be reshaped into a hub and spoke model next year as part of Minister Courtney Houssos’s sweeping changes to how the state...
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The National AI Centre’s founding general manager Stela Solar has joined the Australian arm of multinational consulting and services giant Accenture as its managing partner for data and AI, less...
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On its final sitting day of the year, the Senate passed 31 bills after the Albanese government struck deals around the chamber. The flurry of legislation includes key changes...
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Online account takeover powers were used to fight terrorism for the first time last year, with the federal police using controversial identify and disrupt laws to secretly gather evidence....
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The Victorian government will seed as many as 50 startups through an Australia-first fellowship program that gives university students and PhD candidates the opportunity to commercialise early-stage research. The...
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A consortium of government and industry bodies have begun developing a standardised approach for businesses to assess the value of their data and protect against risks across the economy....
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Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the bill passing in the last hour of Parliament for the...
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The Western Australian government has pushed its public sector privacy and information sharing bill through parliament with few amendments at its last opportunity before the state election, despite ongoing...
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The Albanese government’s signature industry policy passed the Parliament on a chaotic final sitting day of the year, setting up a new era of public funding for transformative industries...
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Governments must learn to “ride the wave” of artificial intelligence, according to NSW digital minister Jihad Dib, who has talked up the huge productivity benefits the technology presents. Speaking...
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The privacy and information watchdog has slashed dozens of staff in response to a 23 per cent budget cut by government and a review by management consultants, sparking fears...