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Concerns over SA’s quarantine tech trial

Strict safeguards are needed around the South Australian government use of new technology for home quarantine, digital rights advocates say, with individuals to use facial recognition software and geolocation...

PwC paid $1m per month for vaccine rollout work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is paying global consulting giant PwC nearly $1 million per month across 2021 to assist with its troubled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, under a previously secret contract...

Trade expert backs Aust science and research

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s policy makers should make a strategic investment in leading edge science to grow future industries, according to a global trade expert, who warns it is difficult to compete...

Dept of Health’s Covid contracts ‘out of control’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s reliance on contractors and consultants for key COVID-19 response work is “out of control” and is not building capability for the next major crisis, the public...

Govt urged to look local on vaccination certificates

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government knocked back a pitch from an Adelaide company to protect digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates from fraud last year, after a senator revealed this week that the...

NSW launches R&D fund and new tech vouchers

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The New South Wales government has launched a new $6 million research and development fund to help scale innovative products and is also offering new “TechVouchers” of up to...

COVIDSafe report missing the one thing that matters

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Like the villain in a bad horror movie, COVIDSafe refuses to die. It has been a staggering fall from grace for the contact tracing app, heralded as the “ticket”...

Victoria bids for federal govt mRNA funding

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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...

Australia urged to back vaccine IP waiver

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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...