Tag: COVID-19

Can manufacturing escape the new Covid strains?

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
Sitting in my hotel room in Melbourne I am beginning to feel anxious at being away from home with the onset of a Sydney lockdown that bodes ill for...

Govt fails to deliver COVIDSafe report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has failed to produce a six-monthly report on the effectiveness of its COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the winter sitting of Parliament, despite promising to do...

Victoria leads as states vie for mRNA facility

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Victoria will conduct the first clinical trial of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine in Australia as the state looks to partner with the federal government to establish a national manufacturing...

Victoria and Qld police can also access COVID app data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian and Queensland state governments have confirmed the police can access data from their respective COVID-19 QR code check-in apps but require a warrant to do so. The...

Agencies getting COVIDSafe data by accident

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Law enforcement agencies have not accessed or decrypted any data from the federal government’s COVIDSafe app despite sometimes “incidentally” collecting information from it,  the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security...

Victoria launches online vaccine booking platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Eligible Victorians can now book in to receive the COVID-19 vaccination using a Microsoft online booking platform the state government purchased for nearly $6 million more than five months...

WA Police accessed COVID check-in app data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Western Australian police twice accessed data from the state’s COVID-19 contact tracing check-in app, forcing the state government to introduce urgent legislation to prevent it happening again. The...

Accenture lands $7m govt deal for vaccine data work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay Accenture a further $7 million to make “modest enhancements” to its vaccine ordering system, after the global consulting giant was paid $8 million to...