Former Industry Minister Ed Husic on Tuesday blamed Treasury “hard heads” for limiting Australia’s technology development, and revealed he wants artificial intelligence governed by an AI Act to instill...
Australia’s peak business lobby has called on government to accelerate national efforts to bake productivity-enhancing artificial intelligence systems into the economy. The Business Council of Australia has released a...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the federal government is focused on the “huge gains on offer” from artificial intelligence and “not just the guardrails”, in a sign that its priorities...
AI is in widespread use across Australia’s financial sector with almost no oversight, according to its workers, who warn the technology could kill jobs and turbocharge the unethical behaviour...
Businesses have urged the federal government to open its digital identity system to the private sector at the same time as state governments, arguing that not doing so will...
The case for a temporary safe harbour to improve information sharing between businesses and government during a cyber-attack is building, with Australia’s key business lobby the latest to recommend...
The Albanese government’s $15 billion industrialisation investment should be used to build a handful of “internationally significant precincts” in strategic locations around the country, according to Australia’s key business...
Australia should consider “strategic needs” ahead of a one-size-fits-all income threshold to help fill the technology skills shortage, according to the country’s largest professional association for technology workers. In...
Extending the Privacy Act to offshore data collection where it relates to Australians goes beyond that of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, according to a handful of...
Australian businesses of all sizes can take practical steps that will “kick-start the commercialisation engine” and speed up a technology-led recovery from the pandemic, a new report from CSIRO...