A new $16 million innovation competition co-designed by the Minderoo Foundation has been launched by global not-for-profit XPRIZE to drive development of bushfire detection and rapid response technologies. The...
Digital
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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has called for the greater use of data and automation in National Disability Insurance Scheme assessments as long as an “ethical framework” is in...
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A coalition of privacy organisations, think tanks and industry groups are calling for the creation of a dedicated parliamentary committee to give “political focus” to digital rights issues in...
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Western Australia has begun developing digital credentials and associated features for its ServiceWA smartphone app after awarding a $3 million contract to two local firms. The 16-month contract was...
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Australian app developers have joined a class action lawsuit against Big Tech giants Google and Apple alleging abuse of power in their respective app stores. The class actions, being...
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Australians now have the option of adding a digital Medicare card with anti-fraud features to the myGov app, as the federal government continues works to integrate the card into...
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A panel of Canberra’s most senior bureaucrats are weighing an investment vehicle modelled on the New South Wales government’s Digital Restart Fund to support federal digital projects outside of...
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NSW Labor will investigate an interim digital voting solution to allow blind and low vision Australians to cast a verifiable ballot in state and local government elections before 2027...
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has decried Big Tech’s conduct as anti-competitive, a handbrake on innovation and harmful to consumers, after the regulator spent six years...
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Online safety codes developed by the industry but rejected by the regulator have been redrafted and released for public consultation. It is the final chance for the industry to...
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Atlassian will cut 500 jobs from its workforce, joining other tech giants like Microsoft, Google and IBM, although the founders claim the decision is not a ‘financially driven reduction’....
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Local FinTechs and two of the Big Four banks have been invited by the Reserve Bank to demonstrate the potential of Central Bank Digital Currency in Australia. Each of...
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The federal government has launched its My Health Record mobile app a year later than first planned to improve access to the digital health record that has long been...
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With the Prime Minister headlining diplomatic visits to India in coming weeks it’s timely to recognise how much we can learn from India’s remarkable innovation in using digital technology...