The Western Australian government has introduced long-awaited privacy legislation, promising its first-ever privacy commissioner and a mandatory data breach notification scheme should it pass before the fast-approaching election. The...
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Updates to Australia’s critical economic data and the cloud environment behind them will be delivered by Amazon Web Services under a $10 million deal that will also test a new...
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A $206.4 million Budget commitment to improved data capability and cybersecurity has been given to Australia’s two financial regulators, among a series of smaller cyber upgrades. The funding, included...
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Hospitals could save up to $5.4 billion a year by making better use of electronic medical records, including the My Health Record if the government fixes “important gaps”, according...
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The head of the Australian Border Force will depart later this year, hoping to leave a legacy of the beginnings of “seamless” passenger travel and highly automated border protection...
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Defence will nearly double its planned investments in enterprise ICT compared to 2020, expecting to spend up to $1 billion annually after changes to its digital governance. Total planned...
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Two more Australian tech companies have been cleared to carry protected-level public sector data under the federal government’s Hosting Certification Framework, as an existing provider questions the value of...
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In July 2022, the Australian government enacted the Climate Change (Consequential Amendments) Act 2022. This law commits Australia to an ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43...
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Australia’s corporate watchdog has shed light on ongoing efforts to investigate a ‘data spine’ of business and company data, one of the core benefits of the registry overhaul scrapped...
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A cut-down version of the government data hosting rules that currently apply to data centres and cloud storage will be extended to cloud software and third-party IT services under...
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Global banking giant HSBC has avoided a hefty fine despite allegedly sending inaccurate and incomplete data through Australia’s budding economy-wide data sharing scheme. The bank paid penalties of $33,000...
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Researchers at Australia’s national science agency are “bullish” on the potential productivity gains to be had from developing foundation AI models in Australia, and say that building sovereign capability...
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The New South Wales government has begun a trial of network sensing technology on two major rivers in Sydney that promises to deliver more reliable flood and storm intelligence...
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Google’s dominance of internet search and the potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt or entrench it will go under the microscope in the competition watchdog’s second inquiry of the...