Labor’s National Conference has formally adopted into its platform a significantly boosted policy profile for artificial intelligence, committing a future Shorten government to the development of new AI capability...
Passing the highly controversial bill was an “incredibly hard choice”, and the Opposition will look to strengthen protections in the scheme if it wins next year’s election, shadow digital...
The government’s new crackdown on online piracy is a “regulatory hallucinogen” that does not address the real issue, while further copyright reform is needed to promote innovation, according to...
The internet is at a “turning point” and further regulation could be needed to keep tech giants in line, communications minister Mitch Fifield has said. Speaking at the Sydney...
Extracting economic value and social benefit from the emerging data economy would require a more centrally coordinated national data plan than is currently in place, says Opposition digital economy...
The federal government’s controversial encryption legislation has been referred to a joint committee for an inquiry, with only a three-week window for submissions. It follows the bill being introduced...
Government agencies are failing to upload data to the Digital Transformation Agency’s digital dashboard and many are not providing any information at all, hampering efforts to improve transparency and...
South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has joined the program at the innovation and social policy summit Civic Nation to deliver the opening keynote address. Mr Marshall, who led the...
The federal government’s long-awaited equity crowdfunding reforms are set to be passed by Parliament this week, a year after they were first introduced. The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding for...
The government is set to unveil its digital economy strategy in the coming months, but delays in releasing the report have been slammed by the Opposition. The strategy had...