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Digital Council looks at e-invoicing

The Australian Digital Council has met for the last time before the federal election and a significant shake-up of its membership. The council, formed last year and made up...

Govt names data advisory board

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has formed a data advisory group to help it find the “right balance” in making data available to departments while upholding privacy and confidentiality. The National...

Keenan to quit at election

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Whatever the result of May’s federal election, Australia will have a new minister guiding the government’s digital transformation efforts, after Coalition MP Michael Keenan announced he will be quitting...

Michael Keenan on digital strategy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has unveiled its Digital Transformation Strategy, declaring that all Commonwealth services will be available through digital channels by 2025. The strategy was promised earlier this year...

Morrison convenes Digital Council

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has wasted no time convening a meeting of state and federal digital ministers, with the aim of knock-down obstacles to setting up better arrangements for...

Digital to remain within PM&C

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency remains an executive agency in the Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio with no change to ministerial responsibility. This is despite the Minister for Digital Transformation...

Cyber, DTA still up in the air

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The reporting lines for key components of the Australian Government cyber security infrastructure remains unsettled following last week’s change of Prime Minister, while the fate of the Digital Transformation...

Turmoil clouds the tech agenda

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A major cloud is now over the federal government’s tech and digital transformation agenda with a series of resignation offers from key ministers amid ongoing leadership turmoil. With Australia’s...

Keenan names Data Commissioner

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal government has made Deborah Anton the country’s first National Data Commissioner as the list of government data privacy challenges becomes ever lengthier and more fraught. The announcement...

New data laws up for discussion

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government wants the right to make more of the citizen data it collects publicly available and sharable for a range of purposes – including research and commercialisation...