Tag: Malcolm Turnbull

PM’s Science Prize is a winner

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
La Trobe University’s Professor Jenny Graves has become the first woman to be awarded the nation’s most prestigious science award, having scooped the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, for...

Face biometric backlash begins

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government’s new facial recognition capabilities are set to be made available to the private sector in what digital rights group have branded a “complete betrayal” of civil...

Turnbull’s new face biometric plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Commonwealth plans to incorporate state government drivers’ licence photos in its facial recognition systems used by law enforcement is a “massive privacy overreach,” digital rights advocates have said. Prime...

NISA critique is way too harsh

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Auditor-General’s recent review of the design and monitoring of the National Innovation and Science Agenda risks throwing out the outcome baby with the process bathwater. Industry development policy...

Bowen’s landmark Asia pitch

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It has been an awfully long time since any political party in Australia gave any serious thought to what US President George H. W. Bush (41) once referred to...

Multi-tech mess fleeces the nation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A decade ago when John Howard was swept from office, he left Australia a broadband backwater. A broken regulatory structure and clear market failure demanded government intervention. So Labor’s...

$30b NBN blunder: More bad news

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
Malcolm Turnbull’s multi-technology mix National Broadband Network (NBN) was comprehensively undermined last week when BT’s Openreach CEO Clive Selley indicated that 10 million UK premises could have Fibre to...

Govt is right to target OTT comms

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull government has announced plans for legislation to compel tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google to unscramble the encrypted communications increasingly used by terrorists and...

Crypto-politics: A sleeper awakes

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s assertion that technology companies should help security services circumvent encryption measures has drawn a sharp response from Greens senator Scott Ludlam. Senator Ludlam has long...