Tag: COVID-19

DTA defends effectiveness of COVIDSafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Digital Transformation Agency has gone into bat for its COVIDSafe contact tracing app, defending it against a barrage of criticism from Labor senators. Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) representatives...

AFP muscles up on cybercrime response

Posted on   |  by David McClure
The Australian Federal Police has made cybercrime a central priority for 2020 and beyond, ratcheting up cybercrime operations as the force confronts COVID-themed cyberattacks, as well as an increase...

Building on our strength in clinical trials

Posted on   |  by Elizabeth de Somer
It is no accident that the idea of Australia “punching above its weight” became a colloquial commonplace in the 1980s and 1990s. It was the time when Australian efforts...

Tech ministers examine sovereign procurement

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is looking at using its procurement power to boost local industry and is examining the work of the New South Wales government’s new sovereign procurement taskforce...

Health dept stands by COVIDSafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal Health department has stood by COVIDSafe at a Senate hearing, despite confirming it was yet to identify a new close contact in Victoria, where contact tracers stopped...

Aust-US ties on science and tech bolstered

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
Australia and the United States have moved to strengthened their history of collaboration through a senior-level dialogue on science and frontier technologies led by Industry Minister Karen Andrews. Minister...

Govt seeks input on mass vaccine capability

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has put out a nationwide call to local manufacturers seeking information as part of preparation to produce future vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 at scale. The...

NSW to launch its own contact trace app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
New South Wales will soon have its own contact tracing app with the state government trialling a new function on its digital licence to enable venue-based tracing that will...

Senate R&D tax inquiry delayed again

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The uncertainty for companies accessing the R&D tax incentive is set to continue with the Senate committee tasked with investigating the planned $1.8 billion cuts to the scheme delayed...
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