Communications Minister Paul Fletcher has published what he describes as a "mini-book": Governing in the Internet Age. This is a mini-review based only on his National Press Club Address...
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The Greens and the Australian Lawyers Alliance are pushing for COVID-19 contact tracing check-in data to be used only for health reasons, following successful attempts by law-enforcement authorities in...
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The world’s biggest cloud company Amazon Web Services has been certified under the federal government’s data sovereignty scheme despite its links to a controversial Chinese-owned data centre and the...
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On the day that sovereign cloud service company Sliced Tech was awarded ‘Certified Strategic’ status under the federal government’s controversial Hosting Certification Framework, the company was acquired by multinational...
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The tax office will pay Irish-domiciled tech firm Accenture more than $1.3 million per month over the next year as part of a near-$17 million contract relating to an...
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The federal government’s online safety reforms will lead to “widespread cybersecurity risks” comparable to the infamous Ashley Maddison data leak and may see “the work of one arm of...
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A European Union funded consortium has released the final project report that the entire constriction sector is waiting for – official confirmation that the technology developed by Australian company Calix...
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An electric motorcycle builder and a company that uses a seaweed oil extract as a feed additive to reduce livestock methane emissions are two of the latest recipients of...
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Battery and electric vehicle technology company 3ME technology has been revealed as the first investment of the Australian Business Growth Fund, a joint partnership between the federal government and...
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Silicon Quantum Computing chief executive Michelle Simmons and Australia’s Ambassador to the United States Arthur Sinodinos are among the heavyweight speakers to join a special panel discussion on the...
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Aerospace engineering company Hypersonix Launch Systems has teamed up with the University of Southern Queensland to create a re-usable hypersonic UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to be named Delta Velos....
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The Bureau of Meteorology is set to open a space weather hub in Adelaide that will monitor events like solar flares, which can disrupt services like GPS for navigation...
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The Queensland government is preparing a 10-year innovation plan based on research it commissioned that predicts the state could create 80,000 new jobs and add $11 billion to the...
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Recent revelations by a Facebook whistleblower that the social media giant puts “astronomical profits before people” are a reminder of the need to regulate Big Tech, according to Communications...