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Pezzullo dismisses critics on critical infrastructure

Escalating cyber threats has meant there is no time to refine Australia’s critical infrastructure security scheme, Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo says, urging Parliament to pass the bill without delay. If passed,...

Deadline looms: 2021 Awards for Excellence

The final deadline to enter the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence is almost upon us. We want to hear from Australia’s best entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers and commercialisation heroes by...

CBA rejects claims of stifling BNPL competition

Australia’s biggest bank has rejected the charge it is urging customers to close Buy Now Pay Later services to improve their prospects of a home loan, and that they...

Victoria bids for federal govt mRNA funding

The Victorian government has made a number of submissions to the federal government’s approach to market for a local mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability, with several other states also vying...

Brace yourself for global component shortages

Electronics manufacturers such as Entech Electronics have had to beef up their supply chain and purchasing teams to meet the challenges of a global shortage of electronic components. Yaser...

Australia urged to back vaccine IP waiver

Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...

Facebook’s ‘watered-down’ protection for young Australians

Facebook has tightened how advertisers can target its youngest users ahead of international regulation and after scrutiny from digital rights groups, including a cohort calling for regulator-led protections in...

Resilience in the face of fire, flood and cyber

What do bushfires and cyber threats have in common? They are both a fact of life; they are both likely to get worse; and we won’t be able to...

Govt wary of over-regulating AI: Jane Hume

The government is wary of over-regulating new technologies such as artificial intelligence and will resist making ethics standards and codes mandatory for Australian businesses, Digital Economy minister Jane Hume...

NSW moves ahead with digital ID advisory council

The NSW Police will have a prominent voice on the state’s newly formed Digital Identity Ministerial Advisory Council (DIMAC) to advise on the government’s strategic direction for digital ID....

Facial recognition and the NSW protest crowds

NSW Police have not ruled out its use of facial recognition technology to identify thousands of protestors from a Sydney anti-lockdown rally on Saturday, despite calls from experts to...

The role of social media in COVID protests

The federal government must require greater transparency from the social media giants about COVID-19 misinformation following the large-scale anti-lockdown protests in Sydney and Melbourne at the weekend, shadow assistant...

Govt ‘wilfully blind’ on public sector labour hire

The federal opposition has accused the government of being “wilfully blind” to the use of labour hire within the public service, amid growing concerns about the over reliance on...

Porter ‘open minded’ on software R&D tax

Industry minister Christian Porter says he is open-minded about a separate R&D Tax Incentive scheme for software but will not consider the issue until a Senate committee reports in...