The Auditor General has been asked to investigate an unprecedented delay in the announcement of research grant recipients by the federal government, as thousands of researchers prepare for a...
The federal government still can’t appoint a full National Data Commissioner as a statutory role or get its data strategy off the ground due to a failure to get...
Deloitte has landed a further $1 million for its work on the revamped myGov, with the new version of the government services platform entering its final stage of beta...
The Coalition is overhauling university research funding and governance to align it with its manufacturing priorities and commercialisation agenda, in a “new direction” the government says will drive Australia’s...
The federal government has failed to meet its own commitment to introduce legislation to underpin its digital identity program this year, but has called on private companies to express interest...
Here we go again. On December 3, Minister Stuart Robert unveiled the latest Government Digital Strategy (GDS) at a gathering of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) in Canberra....
The minister responsible for government technology has declined to provide almost any detail on lucrative contracts awarded by his Digital Transformation Agency to global consultancies McKinsey and Boston Consulting...
Cryptography and security experts have welcomed the federal government’s new international digital Covid-19 vaccine certificate, saying it should be used across the country instead of other, less privacy protecting...
The world’s biggest cloud company Amazon Web Services has been certified under the federal government’s data sovereignty scheme despite its links to a controversial Chinese-owned data centre and the...
The federal government has finally unveiled exposure legislation expanding its digital identity program to state governments and the private sector, with a whirlwind consultation period commencing before it is...