Author: Justin Hendry

Most federal govt agencies adopting AI without a policy

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More than half of all federal government agencies using artificial intelligence last year adopted the technology without creating policies to govern its use, raising fresh concerns about the system...

ServiceWA app breaks free of logins after user complaints

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The Western Australian government has overhauled its ServiceWA app to make it more “user friendly”, with the requirement that users login with myGovID to access a range of services...

Opposition grows to real-time pathology data sharing plan

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A plan to make pathology reports immediately accessible through My Health Record is facing opposition from GPs and specialists, with three peak bodies warning the move could lead to...

Gig Guide: NSW data guru Ian Oppermann out

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New South Wales’ first-ever chief data scientist Ian Oppermann is hanging up his boots after more than eight years in the role to join the technology advisory firm set...

‘Empty words’: Top three digital govt goal scrapped

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The Albanese government has scrapped the Coalition’s lofty goal of Australia becoming one of the top three digital governments in the world by 2025 in its first digital and...

Melbourne nanotech hub gets ahead of the quantum revolution

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“Shaping the future of quantum technologies” is how Frank Yao describes the role of Innofocus’s newly minted 1,000 square metre nanofabrication hub in Melbourne.   His team is on a...

Bart Mellish is Qld’s new digital minister

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Queensland has a new Digital Services minister in Bart Mellish, an environmental scientist who served as chief of staff to federal Labor Senator Anthony Chisholm prior to politics. Mr...