The Department of Home Affairs will spend at least $20 million on contractors to test its IT projects this financial year, including adding $4 million to one provider’s contract...
Home Affairs has said it is committed to improving its digitised version of the incoming traveller declaration after receiving scathing reviews from users since it was launched last month....
The final round of significant critical infrastructure reforms is set to be passed into law after the powerful national security committee gave it the green light subject to minor...
The national audit office has turned its attention to the federal government’s procurement of the permissions capability, which has seen more than $60 million handed to Irish-domiciled consulting giant...
The Law Council of Australia has warned that proposed changes to allow the nation’s international and domestic intelligence agencies to more easily gather covert intelligence on people in Australia...
Technology is no longer the new frontier; it’s not an ungoverned or unregulated place. As COVID has demonstrated, digital technologies are now core to our economy and society, and...
The first iteration of the federal government’s permissions capability will launch this week, serving to digitise the Covid-19 declarations of incoming passengers and coinciding with the reopening of Australia’s...
Amendments to the federal government’s highly controversial facial recognition database legislation were referred to the powerful national security committee nearly two years ago but an inquiry has yet to be...
Despite the necessary legislation not having been passed, the federal government is “streamrolling” ahead with its plan to launch a national facial recognition database and is already on the...
Australian authorities have begun using their controversial “extraordinary” new hacking warrants, allowing them to “disrupt” the data of suspected offenders and access their online accounts. The Identify and Disrupt...