Tag: Dan Tehan

Crackdown puts research at risk

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A potential federal government crackdown on open research and foreign collaboration in Australian universities could have a “cataclysmic” impact of emerging industries like quantum computing, Q-CTRL founder Michael Biercuk...

Research grants to be reviewed

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
A future Shorten Government has promised it will end political interference in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) grants process. “Bill Shorten has declared that if Labor wins the upcoming...

Funding delays are ‘grossly unfair’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The latest ever announcement of Australian Research Council funding has placed Australia’s innovation system “at risk”, according to the federal Opposition. And industry lobby Science and Technology Australia says...

New uni program bad for research

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow industry minister Senator Kim Carr has accused the Morrison Government of robbing Peter to pay Paul over a decision to spent $134 million to improve student access to...

How to handle a cyber storm

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When former Assistant Minister for Cyber Security Dan Tehan addressed the National Press Club back in 2016, he warned about the need to prepare for an imminent cyber storm...

Ingram plots the future of cyber

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Cyber awareness among Australian businesses has improved over the last two years, but it still may take the first widely publicised example of a company being pinged by data...

Security ratings for IoT devices?

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has asked industry leaders to develop a mandatory cyber security rating system for Internet of Things devices, but experts say such a scheme would be “enormously...

No charges laid for cyber attacks

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s cyber spooks say they responded to more than 600 “serious incidents” in the last year, and yet no charges and no prosecutions have been made as a result...

Cyber offense is our best defence?

Posted on   |  by Vitaly
Hot on the heels of the recent Petya ransomware attack, the Federal government has shifted from being coy about Australia’s offensive cyber capability to publicly directing the Australian Signals...
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