In the absence of meaningful activity from the Industry portfolio in coordinating and accelerating investment in AI infrastructure, Australia’s next federal government should consider moving responsibility for a national...
In an increasingly digital world, sovereign digital infrastructure is not just a matter of technological capability, it is a matter of national security, economic strength, and strategic independence. At its...
The federal government has for the first time defined an ‘Australian business’ for procurement purposes as part of a multi-year project to extract more benefits from its $80 billion...
Australian tech suppliers have warned large foreign competitors and big four consultants are exploiting low tax bills, unskilled government buyers and a system of “soft corruption” to land and...
The federal government is being urged to tear up billions of dollars’ worth of agreements with IBM, SAP and other foreign tech giants in a bid to close off...
The Australian Information Industry Association’s crucial Domestic Capabilities policy advisory network (PAN) has a new chair, with the election of David Elliot, the chief executive of Canberra-based tech delivery...
In the absence of standardised reporting and regulatory frameworks for measuring and reducing carbon emissions resulting from large data centre operations, Australian sovereign cloud provider Vault Cloud has developed...
Microsoft caused the government “billions of dollars of damage” when it pulled out of Defence and national security work last year but faced no consequences, a Senate inquiry has...
Forty policy thinkers from across the Australian tech and innovation ecosystems have contributed more than 70,000 words to The Innovation Papers projects to be published in a newspaper format...
High levels of regulatory compliance, crippling skills shortages and a relentlessly shifting risk landscape are combining to make military-grade cloud, including physical infrastructure, increasingly attractive to commercial and government...