Japanese conglomerate NEC and D-Wave, a Canadian quantum firm backed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and In-Q-Tel, are expanding their presence in Australia, launching two new quantum services to compete...
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Industry and Science minister Ed Husic says the federal government remains open to providing additional support for the development of sovereign AI capabilities, but that overseas examples suggest much...
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Digital health accelerator ANDHealth and biomedical commercialisation fund Brandon BioCatalyst have been awarded $50 million to launch another round of their CUREator+ BioMedTech program to support commercialisation and translation...
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A ‘right to disconnect’ allowing workers to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers outside working hours will be included in the latest tranche of industrial relations reforms following months...
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The Productivity Commission believes Australia is not well positioned to produce its own advanced artificial intelligence models and doubts the productivity benefits of “activist government ‘sponsorship’” across the AI...
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Representatives from the biggest technology companies and leading universities convened in Sydney on Wednesday to discuss New South Wales’ next blueprint for digital services. Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, SAP...
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Australia has placed fifth out of 38 countries in a global ranking of digital governments, placing above Estonia and snapping at the heels of other advanced economies like Norway and...
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Adobe has landed a two-year extension to its lucrative myGov deal, with the US multinational to be paid another $30.7 million to continue its support of the government digital...
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Consulting giant McKinsey has landed another large Defence contract to continue developing a digital twin for the Army. The latest deal means McKinsey will get paid almost $1 million...
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The revival of internet voting for blind and low vision voters in New South Wales is underway, with the government agency in charge of state elections now scouring the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Australia’s competition watchdog will be handed new powers to request information from digital platforms that could extend to secret commercial deals with news businesses under planned changes to the...