Public servants have been warned that using generative artificial intelligence tools for service delivery and decision-making poses “an unacceptable risk to government” in new advice from the Digital Transformation...
A parliamentary technological assessment office to enhance and coordinate Australian tech policy should be established, according to digital economy observer and Liberal backbencher Aaron Violi. In an interview with...
Police and emergency services will be able to more easily access telecommunications data to triangulate the location of missing persons under legislation being proposed by the federal government. The...
The Victorian Labor government will introduce a 95 per cent renewables target for 2035 alongside $1 billion in investment to build state-controlled renewable energy projects, if it is successfully...
Industry Minister Ed Husic has been handed two additional policy priorities following a reallocation of executive responsibilities among ministers through an Administrative Arrangements Order. Responsibility for food and beverage...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the global economy, with the total cost likely to exceed US$12.5 trillion dollars according to International Monetary Fund estimates. At...
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network wants the new federal government to re-establish the regions-focused Communications Fund, in part to respond to estimates that there around 900,000 households without...
After 18 months in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, parliamentary newcomer Christine Tonkin has made it her mission to listen to the needs of industry, and is expecting to...
Australian manufacturers have welcomed the election commitments from both Labor and the Coalition as they call on the next government to consult with businesses. The Labor party’s key commitment...
We are now familiar with artificial intelligence as meaning intelligence demonstrated by machines as opposed to that demonstrated by animals, especially humans. The adjective ‘artificial’ however includes ‘fake’ among...