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Govt identity inquiry overdue

A government inquiry into identity security is running more than two months behind schedule as the Coalition mulls a new iteration of the National Identity Security Strategy. The review...

Andrew Stevens is the new Bill Ferris

Innovation and Science Australia has a new chairman after former IBM Australia managing director Andrew Stevens was quietly appointed to the role just before Christmas. Mr Stevens, who is...

Open banking’s politics of delay

The government’s inability to introduce its “game-changing” Consumer Data Right legislation, and the subsequent delay to the launch of open banking, could provide an opportunity to improve the regime,...

Games sector preps for election

The Australian game development sector hopes to drive part of the national debate in the lead up to this year’s federal election, seeking a new level of political support...

Tackling Rudd’s NBN revisionism

Kevin Rudd’s The PM Years is an interesting exercise in revisionism that has fuelled great interest in his assertion that Murdoch attacked the NBN for commercial reasons. Before we...

Reflections on an election year

As the summer break draws to a close and the tech ecosystem ratchets up activities for the year, it is worth reflecting on the big policy discussions ahead. The...

ACSC shutters 2019 conference

The federal government’s Australian Cyber Security Centre has quietly shuttered the 2019 iteration of its annual conference leaving the security sector scrambling. The ACSC conference held annually in March/April...

MHR reports 42 data breaches

There were more than 40 breaches involving My Health Record data in a year, the agency behind the program has revealed in its annual report. But experts fear this...

$40m Xmas bonus for CRC projects

More than $40 million worth of grants were delivered to 19 projects as part of the sixth round of the federal government’s Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grants program....

ASPI, AustCyber on encryption bill

The recently-passed encryption bill had the potential to “harm the economic viability and growth of Australia’s cybersecurity sector” if a series of serious concerns were not addressed, a report...

Open banking quietly delayed

The much-anticipated launch of open banking in Australia has been quietly delayed by the federal government by eight months. On the last Friday before Christmas, a day typically used...

Summer reading: Ultimate Guide

Naughty or nice, people? If you haven’t asked yourself that question already, you have maybe left your run a little late. We are about to enter the land of...

Year in review: Back-end 2018

Following InnovationAus.com’s recap of the first six months of the year, it’s clear that 2018 started with a bang. It’s now time to look at what has been happening...

Digital strategy quietly unveiled

It has taken three ministers and 18 months of work to get it done, but the federal government has quietly released its much anticipated digital economy strategy in a...