Tag: Scott Morrison

ServicesAus gets a structural facelift

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Services Australia will be up and running as an executive agency rather than a department from February next year, and the Department of Communications has been rolled in with...

Local space sector is over the moon

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The $150 million federal play to involve Australian companies in American missions to the moon and Mars has been cautiously welcomed by local space firms, with hopes it could...

Karen Andrews on the moon mission

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has committed an additional $150 million over five years to underwrite Australia’s participation in the United States led public-private Moon to Mars space exploration program....

CSIRO’s Williams hails space deal

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO’s most senior space sector executive Dave Williams has hailed the Australian Space Agency’s collaborative partnership with NASA and says the $150 million funding commitment from government deals...

Social media plan backlash

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A federal government plan to block sites hosting “extreme and violent content” during a crisis event has been labelled a “dangerous proposition” by digital rights advocates, with the Coalition...

ServicesAus not just ‘rebranding’: PM

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a “step change” in how the public sector operates and denied claims that the creation of Services Australia is just a “fancy...

Expensive reliance on outside advice

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government’s use of external consultants to design Services Australia is “deeply concerning” and risks the new department having an “expensive, debilitating dependency” on outsourcing, according to the deputy...

Mike Burgess gets ASIO call-up

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Less than two years ago, Mike Burgess was the chief information security officer within Australia’s largest telecommunications carrier Telstra. From the middle of next month he will become the...

PM sets new goals for digital skills

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
In his first major domestic speech since the May 18 federal poll, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged to improve Australia’s digital skills, and to drive the uptake of...