The government’s interim response to the safe and responsible AI in Australia consultation earlier this year envisions a risk-based approach to regulating AI that would strike a constructive balance...
Australia’s communications regulator is developing a new set of metrics to boost visibility of the actions social media giants like Meta and TikTok are taking to combat harmful misinformation...
Adobe has landed a two-year extension to its lucrative myGov deal, with the US multinational to be paid another $30.7 million to continue its support of the government digital...
Misinformation reports produced by digital platform providers like Meta, Twitter and TikTok under the voluntary industry code are “not working to provide transparency”, the communications watchdog has argued in...
The Department of Defence has signed a new contract with Adobe to cover software and support services for the next three years. At around $6 million a year, the...
A fifth of the government procurements linked to an alleged lobbying scandal involving tech suppliers and former minister Stuart Robert had either conflicts of interest, poor value for money...
The federal government shunned its own website content management system in favour of Adobe when myGov was redeveloped due to its “limited functionality”, only to leave Adobe’s content personalisation...
Adobe was decided as the software provider for the new myGov platform before the federal government had even devised a business case or approached the market, raising questions about...
The Auditor-General’s damning assessment of procurement practices at the Digital Transformation Agency highlights an urgent need for a closer examination of how the federal government selects and acquires technology....
A key architect of myGov says he “despairs” at the lack of progress on the platform and that the outsourcing of the development of a new version to private...