While the Coalition budget’s science announcements hold one marquee boost to the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), there was precious little to impress science leaders in other areas and...
Skills
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The federal government says its $525.3 million vocational education and training skills package investment delivered as part of the 2019-20 Budget will equip Australians with “better skills”. “We need...
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It’s budget (and election) time again. The federal Government will doubtless announce some additional funding for digital transformation projects including for digital identity. This follows last November’s new Digital...
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A future Shorten Government has promised it will end political interference in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) grants process. “Bill Shorten has declared that if Labor wins the upcoming...
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Australia’s spy agency has opened up about its offensive cyber warfare capabilities as part of an effort to recruit “many hundreds of people” in the coming years. In a...
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A showdown has been set in the Senate over the Consumer Data Right legislation, with Labor pledging to move a number of amendments after a government-led committee gave the...
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Something needs to be done about the concentration of digital advertising around Facebook and Google, with both regularly changing the rules so there is little consistency or clarity, according...
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An extra $67.2 million earmarked for the government’s digital ID project is just one of several tech investments to be featured in next month’s budget, according to outgoing digital...
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The federal government has held its first roundtable on the research and development tax incentive as it looks to fix the troubled legislation, but no changes are expected until...
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CSIRO’s Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner has signalled the need for Australia to lead in blockchain adoption, rather than be a laggard. “In the past, Australia has shown leadership...
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Automation and artificial intelligence present “compelling opportunities” for the Australian public sector to deliver better services to the public, but internal skills gaps need to be addressed urgently, the...
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The federal government will develop a national blockchain roadmap and kick-in a further $100,000 for the study, despite its Digital Transformation Agency recently saying the new technology is at...
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The only people in Australia specifically excluded from the controversial encryption laws are the very people who rushed the legislation through on the final sitting day of 2018, our...
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CSIRO chairman and business leader David Thodey has called out Australia’s urgent need to better prepare for a volatile and uncertain future in a speech that also previewed the...