A high powered group of technology executives from government and the private sector say that in the fast moving game of digital transformation care needs to be taken with...
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Australia’s “world-first” inquiry into the impact of digital platforms on the media is looking to address “one of the defining questions of our age”, the government’s competition tsar said....
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The federal government has revealed how it will spend $8.5 million on a number of test cases for the use of data from My Health Record as it continues...
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A senate inquiry has been launched into “loot boxes” in video games, with the potential for the controversial mechanisms to be regulated or completely banned. The motion to refer...
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The Queensland government is marking the return of its Testing Within Government (TWiG) program for the third consecutive year with a call-out to tech SMEs for a solution that...
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The federal government’s new innovation visa pilot program has officially kicked off, allowing Australian companies to offer four-year visas to highly-skilled tech workers from around the world. The Global...
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The federal government has introduced draft legislation for public comment as first steps to amend the existing research and development tax incentive (R&DTI). The proposed changes of the Treasury...
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Australia’s first ever national space agency has officially launched in a major milestone for the burgeoning local sector. The Australian Space Agency lifted off on Sunday, with former CSIRO...
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Government departments and agencies are still failing to implement the baseline cyber security requirements, leaving them “vulnerable” to potential attacks, an audit has revealed. The Australian National Audit Office...
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The Australian government quietly passed the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 on Wednesday, but it did not go through without scrutiny altogether. Shadow minister of the digital economy...
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There has been a “litany of failures largely unprecedented in scale” in the federal government’s digital transformation efforts, with a need for major structural changes and long-term whole-of-government approaches,...
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Government members of the Senate committee investigating digital service delivery in government have written a robust and lengthy dissenting report defending the Commonwealth’s tech performance. The stark difference in...
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Australia cannot simply isolate itself from technology and innovation originating from China and the rest of Asia without potentially damaging the nation’s future economic growth prospects, according to Huawei...
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A review has been launched into a Perth startup’s practice of sharing its users’ medical information with law firms, with doctors and civil rights advocates labelling it an “abuse...