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| Apr 8, 2025 | Will a Useful Quantum Computer Be a Reality Within 10 Years? DARPA, 2 Australian Startups, IBM & More Are Working On It | Andrew Dzurak, founder and CEO of Australian startup Diraq, holds one of the company’s projects. Image credit: Diraq
DARPA has awarded two Australian startups, Diraq and Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), contracts for quantum computing resea... |
| Oct 3, 2024 | The Unified Tech Approach: A Catalyst for Retail Growth in Australia | Australia's retail landscape is a vibrant tapestry. It ranges from quaint family-run shops to sprawling national chains. Despite its diversity, the sector has faced challenges. Modest growth has been the norm this year, as reported by the A... |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Australia’s AgTech Sector A Hidden Gem To A Healthy Tech Industry | An effort by the Australian government to support the nation’s farmers and other primary producers by incentivising investment in technology is driving growth in tech startups, fostering innovation, and boosting interest in new tech skills.... |
| Sep 2, 2024 | NSW startups to expand into South-East Asia with new government-backed program | NSW Minister for Industry and Trade Anoulack Chanthivong. Source: supplied article-article-body
A new pilot program by the NSW government will give local startups the opportunity to expand their businesses into South-East Asia, leveraging l... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | “It’s insulting”: Boosting Female Founders grants culled, with $17 million in funding up in the air | Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
The $52.2 million Boosting Female Founders grant program will end millions of dollars under budget, after future rounds were quietly axed in the recent federal budget.
Launched in 2020 under the Mor... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | PsiQuantum deal under microscope: Senate estimates raise more concerns | Source: PsiQuantum. article-article-body
This week, fresh questions were raised in Senate estimates hearings about the Albanese government’s investment in PsiQuantum. As Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic visits the company’s US hea... |
| Mar 5, 2024 | Digital Twins Are the Next Wave of Innovation, and Australia Needs to Move Quickly | Digital twins are a simple enough concept: They are the digital representation of any real product, system or process, and they’re used for simulation, monitoring and integration.
While the concept is simple, the value of the technology in ... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | “Completely useless”: Boosting Female Founders program continues to hold back startups | Image: SmartCompany article-article-body
It’s been 18 months since applications opened for the third round of the Boosting Female Founders (BFF) grant program. During that time up to 700 applicants were sitting on matched funds — waiting to... |
| Nov 8, 2023 | Future Food Quick Bites: Dazzling Dairy, Amazing Awards & Poopy Water | 8 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers a host of plant-based dairy news, a bunch of awards and a Chi... |
| Oct 10, 2023 | Australia, New Zealand Enterprises Spend Big on Security — But Will It Be Enough? | Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand organizations know they’re rapidly hurtling towards a security precipice and are willing to invest to try to save themselves from tipping over. New research from Gartner shows that security is becoming on... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Workplace Diversity in Australia: What Can Australian IT Do to Inspire Better Diversity? | Australia is in a position where it could have a highly diverse IT sector across all lines — gender, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability and age. Currently, however, it has struggled to convert its significantly diverse culture into dive... |
| Sep 5, 2023 | Does Australia Have an Issue With Tech Monopolies? | Image: Andrii/Adobe Stock
Last month, the Australian government took firm steps to explore whether Australia has an issue with monopolies in technology. It’s likely that they will find that the nation does, with uncompetitive environments s... |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Crypto Bill Shot Down by Australian Senate | A Senate committee in Australia has rejected a bill aimed at regulating cryptocurrency exchanges, citing concerns over the operation of the proposed reforms.
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The committee acknowledged the need for regulation, but it found the... |
| Jul 25, 2023 | AI Will Deliver $115 Billion More to the Australian Economy, But Are Tech Pros Ready? | Image: Kaikoro/Adobe Stock
The adoption of AI has occurred at an almost unprecedented rate. Now, a report from the Technology Council of Australia and Microsoft suggests that generative AI alone could be worth $115 billion to the Australian... |
| Jul 7, 2023 | Government's "interim" generative AI guide emphasises low-risk use cases | The government has published cautious “interim” guidance on how generative AI might be utilised by the public sector, but says it does not constitute a binding position on the technology.
The guidance was prepared by the Digital Transformat... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Australia’s Slide Backwards in Tech Entrepreneurship Is Concerning | Image: sbuyjaidee/Shutterstock
It is a challenging time to be an entrepreneur in Australia. The recently released IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2023 placed Australia 19th out of 64 nations for overall competitiveness. That wasn’t such ... |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Defence finds its next CIO | Defence has appointed Chris Crozier as its next chief information officer following a nearly six-month search.
Crozier, who is currently the group chief information officer for Orica, based in Singapore, will begin at Defence on August 1.
T... |
| May 9, 2023 | Home Affairs lands $37.3m for cyber security | Home Affairs has landed $37.3 million over the next four-and-a-bit years for its growing cyber security responsibilities, including as the home of the national office for cyber security.
Most of the funding - $27.9 million - falls in the co... |
| Apr 17, 2023 | TAFE NSW backs Oracle in core transformation | TAFE NSW has reinforced its commitment to an Oracle-based student management system replacement, despite fielding an unsolicited bid from a rival technology company to step in with its own solution.
The vocational training institute is prog... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | It’s Awards Season again! | April may be a month of public holidays (Easter and ANZAC Day), but it’s also the month to get your awards applications in, with two annual awards programs closing over the next few weeks, plus three more during May and June.
Yes, we know y... |
| Mar 21, 2023 | Home Affairs' Marc Ablong destined for new national security role | Home Affairs’ deputy secretary for strategic iniatives Marc Ablong is set to shift to a new “national security role”, prompting a reshuffle that also affects the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC).
A recent update to the depart... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | ASD hub to handle REDSPICE 'innovation surge' | The Australian Signals Directorate is set to outsource much of the resourcing of a "service delivery hub" that will prepare enterprise services and internal functions for the $10 billion REDSPICE cyber security program.
The agency... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Three ways the government could help protect Aussie small businesses against inflation | Unsplash/Surface
Inflation is rising at its fastest pace in more than two decades. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows the consumer price index has risen by 6.1% this year, the fastest rate since 2000 when GST raised the price of man... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | Meet the GROWhort: LYRO builds produce-packing robots to fix food’s broken supply chains | Disclosure: The GROW Impact Accelerator is backed by AgFunder, AFN’s parent company.
Australia’s LYRO Robotics, a startup building robots and AI for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry, recently raised A$1.5 million ($1.07 million) in se... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | As Parliament resumes, $1.55 billion in SME tech and training offsets remain in legislative limbo | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas
The new Labor government will prioritise legislation around paid family violence leave and the establishment of Jobs and Skills Australia in the opening days of the 47th Parliament, Prime Mini... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Services Australia extends Hume data centre lease with CDC | Services Australia has extended its main data centre lease with Canberra Data Centres, bringing the cost of facility access to $295 million over the last decade.
The 15-month extension was revealed last week, when the services agency publis... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | Defence begins search for cloud provider to carry secret data | The Department of Defence has gone to market for a cloud provider to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform that will underpin its planned secret-level cloud environment.
Defence issued an expression of interest for the firs... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Australia set for small business boom, with younger and more diverse founders to start 3.5 million new businesses by 2031 | Source: That Startup Photo Library.
Australia is projected to gain 3.5 million new small business by 2031, with a massive influx of construction, professional services, and transportation firms helping to add $60 billion to the annual GDP i... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2022 open for entry | Awards are now open. Image supplied.
The InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2022 includes a six-month program that aims to highlight and celebrate the incredible talent and amazing products and services being produced by the Australian inn... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Frydenberg announces employee share scheme reform — what does it mean for Aussie startups? | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is seen reflected in a water feature as he arrives to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
Tomorrow’s federal budget will reportedly introduce yet more changes to empl... |
| Mar 7, 2022 | Government consulting revenue soars again for McKinsey and BCG | The federal government’s consulting largess continues to be scrutinised, with new analysis suggesting it again doubled its McKinsey and BCG bill during the 2020-2021 financial year.
The world’s two biggest traditional strategy and managemen... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | Weekly Wrap #82: It’s as EV as ‘ABC’ | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Feb 7, 2022 | Services Australia picks EY as delivery partner for GovERP | Services Australia has enlisted the help of EY to deliver the federal government’s next-generation common SAP-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
The consultancy became a “strategic delivery partner” on the whole-of-government ... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | The Flawed Claims About Bias in Facial Recognition | If you’ve been paying attention to press and academic studies in recent years, you know one thing about face recognition algorithms. They’re biased against women and racial minorities. Actually, you’ve probably heard they’re racist. So says... |
| Nov 26, 2021 | The NSW government says foreign tech companies will be crucial to fostering local talent, as Australia’s skills shortage tightens its grip | The NSW government says foreign tech companies will be crucial to fostering local talent, as Australia’s skills shortage tightens its grip. Photo: Getty Images
The NSW government says big tech companies have become crucial to building out t... |
| Oct 22, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #71: Bitcoin's explosion, Snap's erosion, Atlassian's culture locomotion | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Oct 8, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #69: Legal Tech's heyday, Hyper Anna's payday & Big Tech's mayday | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Sep 20, 2021 | Five years, five ministers: What has the Department of Industry, Science and Tech actually achieved? | Former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Christian Porter. Source: AAP/Richard Wainwright
After a mere five months, Christian Porter has stood down from his role as Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, paving the way ... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Why is the National Audit Office taking a closer look at the Entrepreneurs’ Programme? | The Australian National Audit Office has opened a performance audit into the Entrepreneurs’ Programme, specifically focusing on the procurement process for the delivery partners through the scheme.
Those partners reportedly received $110 mi... |
| Aug 27, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #63: OnlyCorn's back, more on-demand snacks, and rockets SPAC | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Aug 13, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #61: Cloud and Proud; Tech Lobbyists & WCs (women capitalists) | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jul 12, 2021 | Gig economy platforms and workers are facing a tax crackdown, amid increasing pressure for regulation of the sector | (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)
The federal government is trialling new rules that will tighten ATO reporting requirements for gig economy operators and employees.
As the gig economy expands to include more industries in Australia, ... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #56: Xero turns 15 & Skedulo banks $100m | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Jul 7, 2021 | Accenture, IBM, Arq Group round out myGov system integrator panel | Services Australia has settled on the four systems integrators that will carry out its $200 million myGov rebuild, as Deloitte gets to work developing a new mobile application to access the government services platform.
The agency has revea... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Mimecast : Calling on All Companies to Report Ransomware Attacks | High-impact ransomware attacks have provoked calls for more transparency and reporting by companies that get hit. But it's complicated.
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Government and industry groups are calling for the mandatory reporting of ransomware attacks... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Australia to fine tech giants, jail users over abusive and threatening posts | More On: facebook
Influencer who shares name with ‘Libs of TikTok’ creator blames cyberbullying on Washington Post reporter Meta investors want Andreessen, Alford off board over Zuckerberg ties Taylor Lorenz slammed as ‘hypocrite’ for ‘doxx... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Australia to fine tech giants, jail users over abusive and threatening posts | More On: facebook
FTC accuses Big Tech of using merger ‘loopholes’ to dodge antitrust scrutiny Instagram chief takes heat for bizarre analogy defending social media ‘This is pretty standard’: WH acknowledges Nicki Minaj invite to discuss CO... |
| May 14, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #48: Sales, Sagas, Shipping & Billionaire Crypto Trolls | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| May 12, 2021 | In a bumper budget for small business and startups, here are eight policies that were missing | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks to the media as he arrives to Parliament House in Canberra. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
Last night’s federal budget gave us a whole lot to cover, both in terms of small business and startup initiatives. B... |
| May 11, 2021 | Budget 2021: What are tech leaders looking out for? | Rebecca Schot-Guppy is the chief executive officer at FinTech Australia.
Between the $1.2 billion digital economy plan, encouragement of foreign investment and changes to employee share schemes, tonight’s budget is shaping up to include a s... |
| Mar 30, 2021 | Lumary secures $17 million for tech designed to help service providers navigate the NDIS | Lumary co-founders Matthew English and Joseph Mercorella. Photographer: Aubrey Jonsson.
South Australian healthtech startup Lumary has raised $17 million in funding, for its tech designed to help service providers navigate the government’s ... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | ‘It’s a slippery slope’: Google’s latest attack on Australia’s plans to force them to pay news publishers claims it would break their search engine | Photo by Olly Curtis/Future via Getty Images
Google has started off the new year with a fresh attack against Australia’s proposed news media bargaining code.
Australian managing director Mel Silva said that code would “break” the company’s ... |
| Nov 24, 2020 | Victorian government announces $25.7 million venture growth fund, as Treasurer laments great ideas “gone missing” | Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas. Source: AAP/Joe Castro.
The Victorian government is set to invest $25.7 million directly into the state’s startup ecosystem, via a new venture growth fund expected to be announced in today’s budget.
The fund ... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | To meet its billion-dollar agricultural output goal, Australia must do more to support agtech innovation | Editor’s note: Justin Webb is co-founder and executive chairman at AgriWebb, a provider of management software for cattle and sheep farms based in Sydney, Australia. The views expressed in this article represent those of the author.
The Aus... |
| Sep 11, 2020 | Weekly Wrap #19: BVP Bares All, Results are Slack and Banks... Innovate? | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Aug 11, 2020 | R&D tax cuts will force clawbacks, ATO admits | Businesses accessing the R&D Tax Incentive (R&DTI) scheme before new legislation is finalised may have to make repayments, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed.
The confirmation comes just weeks before the anticipated ... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | SMEs and startups the focus for new digital procurement taskforce in NSW | A new taskforce plans to make it easier for local suppliers of digital and information and communication technology services to engage with the New South Wales government.
The ICT and Digital Sovereign Procurement Taskforce will look at way... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | icetana and the business of anomaly spotting | icetana 28 May Investor Presentation (2020) How Icetana Looks at You // The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of AI assisted real-time video surveillance technologies; good news for ASX-listed icetana.
The last time we checked ... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Albanese calls for rollback of R&D reforms, as senate enquiry re-opens | Federal opposition leader Anthony Albanese. Source: AAP/Albert Perez.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has called for a bolstering of the research & development tax incentive scheme, as an enquiry into potential changes re-opens after COVI... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Should Australia ditch the COVIDSafe app for the Apple and Google alternative? | Last week, the UK government announced it is ditching development of its own COVID-19 contact tracing app, and adopting the tech co-created by giants Apple and Google.
In Australia, as we see a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Victoria, a... |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Govt to set infosec standards industry-by-industry: report | The government is reportedly crafting minimum cybersecurity standards for industries that manage critical infrastructure following a highly-publicised attack warning late last week.
Citing “industry sources”, The Australian Financial Review... |
| May 14, 2020 | Coronavirus update for business: Queensland bids for Virgin Australia, crowdsourced COVIDSafe solutions, and UberEats cuts fees… a bit | THE VIRGIN AUSTRALIA FLEET SITS IDLE AT AIRPORTS. Queensland makes airline bid
Queensland is looking to take a stake in Virgin Australia, following the troubled airline’s collapse into voluntary administration last month.
State-owned Queens... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | ‘Turn the angry-mob mode off’: Cannon-Brookes calls on divided tech industry to back government’s COVIDSafe app | Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.
Atlassian co-founder and Aussie tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes has come out in support of the government’s COVIDSafe tracking app, even as the broader tech community remains ... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | Government passes laws extending fintech regulatory sandbox — finally | Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy Jane Hume. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas.
The government has passed new laws to finally bring its much-discussed fintech regulatory sandbox into reality.
The Treasury L... |
| Feb 12, 2020 | “An absolute shocker”: AA Bill debated, but there’s still no amendments in sight | Labor Senator Kristina Keneally. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
Australia’s ever-controversial encryption legislation has been debated in the Senate this week, but, despite the blows traded and hyperbole slung, we’re seemingly still no closer to a... |
| Oct 14, 2019 | NAB reform push offers discounted Cisco security product | The fashion of retail banks giving away free or discounted security software and services is back in vogue.
The National Australia Bank has used what it’s calling “preferential” pricing for Cisco’s cloud-based Umbrella product to spearhead ... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | Services Australia minister floats single govt app for citizens | The minister in charge of the federal government’s Services Australia experiment has floated the prospect of a single website or app for accessing all government services.
Minister for Government Services Stuart Robert made the comments to ... |
| Aug 8, 2019 | Govt makes new tech talent visa permanent | A trial visa scheme aimed at helping tech companies lure skilled technology workers to Australia has been made permanent after the federal government deemed the pilot successful.
Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and M... |
| Dec 18, 2017 | Sydney Angels reveals investment data: 54 startups have received $193 million since 2008 | Faced with a lack of data on angel investors in Australia, the country’s largest group of angel investors Sydney Angels has taken matters into its own hands, digging into its data and revealing just how much money the group has invested dur... |
| Dec 14, 2017 | LaunchVic to bring international Tech Inclusion Conference to Australia for first time | LaunchVic chief Kate Cornick. Source: Supplied.
Victoria’s government-backed startup advocacy and development agency LaunchVic has announced it will be bringing the Tech Inclusion Conference to Australia for the first time, to be held in Me... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Government funnels $1.4 million into supporting young workers in gig economy, but experts believe the move is “dubious” | EMPLOYEE UBER RIDES NOW CLAIMABLE UNDER FRINGE BENEFITS TAX EXEMPTION.
The federal government has announced a $1.4 million investment to boost young workers’ access to gig economy employment by providing 80 unemployed Australians with jobs ... |
| Oct 8, 2017 | Australia’s Startmate accelerator announces its most recent class | As the startup tech scene blossoms in Australia, despite challenges like a small pool of local institutional investors and natural threats like the predatory Dropbear, one of the key components of its success has been the development of its... |
| Sep 11, 2017 | ASIC poised to release ICO guidelines: What this means for startups | Startups enticed by the growing popularity of initial coin offerings (ICO) as a fundraising method may soon be subject to more regulation, as the corporate watchdog prepares step up its oversight of the blockchain-based funding practice to ... |
| Aug 10, 2017 | Parliamentarians eager to “press the accelerator” on blockchain adoption with new bipartisan group | Senator Jane Hume, Martin Davidson and Senator Sam Dastyari. Source: Supplied.
Federal Labor and Liberal parliamentarians have put political differences aside and joined forces to support Australia’s burgeoning blockchain sector, with the f... |
| Jul 4, 2017 | DTA appoints a new digital chief | The Digital Transformation Agency has appointed its current chief operating officer Peter Alexander to the role of chief digital officer.
The position has remained unfilled since Paul Shetler abruptly departed the agency last November after... |
| May 25, 2017 | Ed Husic back in boxing ring over claims Turnbull Government is “robbing” regional incubators in Budget 2017 | Shadow minister for the digital economy Ed Husic is back in the boxing ring, this time with claims the Turnbull Government is “robbing regional Australia” by refocusing funding away from incubators outside metropolitan areas.
“This cut mean... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Interstate coworking rises as Melbourne’s York Butter Factory eyes off space at $1 billion Sydney innovation campus | Melbourne coworking space York Butter Factory is reportedly planning to amp up its expansion into Sydney with a spot in the $1 billion Australian Technology Park development.
According to InnovationAus, York Butter Factory is close to signi... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | Government’s push to give startups larger share in $5.6 billion ICT spend met with cautious optimism | StartupAus chief executive Alex McCauley.
The federal government has set a target of boosting the number of government contracts that are awarded to startups and small businesses in the information and communication technology sector by 10%... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | What we really need from innovation in Australia | By Ron Johnston
The tone of commentary about the appropriateness and effectiveness of innovation as a centrepiece of Australian government policy has turned from one of enthusiasm, particularly among the start-up community, to pessimism and... |
| Jun 30, 2016 | What happened to the innovation debate in the election campaign? | By Roy Green
What happened to the innovation debate in our lengthy election campaign?
This was supposed to be the centrepiece of Australia’s transition to a more balanced and diversified economy. Instead the debate is once again about who c... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | Cambodia Fintech: Leveraging Technology to Bank to Unbanked | With only 27% of Southeast Asia’s 600 million population having bank accounts, the region represents an untapped opportunity for fintech companies, in Cambodia these ventures that are leveraging technology to provide more efficient and chea... |
| Future Women’s Jobs Academy awaits independent assessment after huge government funding | A SCREENSHOT OF THE FUTURE WOMEN WEBSITE
Future Women, the lifestyle website and women’s employment services program co-owned by Nine Entertainment, remains confident about its success, even as it awaits independent assessment after it was ... |
| ASD takes cyber offensive to "tens" of targets in the last year | The Australian Signals Directorate has run as many as 50 offensive cyber security actions in the past year.
Director-general Rachel Noble told senate estimates on Wednesday night [pdf] that the agency has a “standing authorisation” to “deny... |
| Three ways to improve the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund and revive manufacturing | Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
Australia’s federal parliament has approved a $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund, intended to reverse the nation’s dwindling manufacturing sector. It is the “first step” in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese... |
| Federal and Qld governments put $940m into quantum computer | The federal government has joined with Queensland to invest $940 million into a quantum computer being built by a US-based startup.
In return, the startup, PsiQuantum, will set up regional headquarters in Australia and host its first comput... |
| Salesforce defends NDIA CRM work after cost questions | Salesforce has defended the cost and value of its technology contribution to the National Disability Insurance Agency’s PACE CRM project, as well as the way it won the work.
The software-as-a-service vendor has faced questions in parliament... |
| Australian Digital Health Agency outsources corporate IT strategy | The Australian Digital Health Agency is set to outsource the creation and execution of its next corporate IT strategy.
ADHA - which has oversight of My Health Record, electronic prescribing and other digital health services - made an extern... |
| NSW DCS lands $146m for cyber security, digital projects | The NSW Department of Customer Service will receive $80 million in funding for cyber security and $66 million for its digital restart fund, two areas that were in need of a cash injection.
In the state budget, handed down Tuesday, the gover... |
| Defence readies a three-year technology roadmap | Defence is set to unveil a three-year digital strategy within months that will provide a roadmap for its technology needs and transformation.
Defence CIO Chris Crozier.
At a parliamentary hearing, chief information officer Chris Crozier sai... |
