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| Apr 29, 2024 | Thinking Laterally in the Indian Ocean | Australia’s commitment to strengthening the Indian Ocean’s multilateral architecture is a long-term goal that will require patience. Australia should leverage bi- and mini-lateral cooperation in the interim to shape a region that reflects i... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Labor’s ‘Working for Women’ strategy to involve more women in decision-making | Minister for Women, Finance and the Public Service Katy Gallagher. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
A new five-year action plan under Labor’s national ‘Working for Women’ strategy offers a whole-of-government roadmap for g... |
| Mar 6, 2024 | Former McKinsey partner Simon Kennedy set for parliament | Profile McKinsey & Company
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Former McKinsey & Company partner Simon Kennedy has won a golden ticket to federal parliament after earning pre-selection for the safe Liberal seat of Cook, vacated by former PM Scott M... |
| May 23, 2023 | Australian banks, telcos may come under secure software rules | Software engineering teams at Australia’s banks and telcos may be next in line - after software vendors to governments, and governments themselves - to have to meet software secure-by-design principles agreed by ‘The Quad’ nations.
The Quad... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Defence tackles metrics review for critical technologies list | Defence is contributing to a review of the government-maintained critical technologies list by exploring ways to better analyse or measure “gaps or opportunities” for improvement in emerging technology domains.
The government said it would ... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Yes, there’s a ‘skills shortage’. Here are 3 jobs summit ideas to start fixing it right away | Ahead of Thursday’s jobs and skills summit, Pi-Shen Seet from Edith Cowan University and Janice Jones from Flinders University present three ways to fill the immediate skills shortage that don’t rely on migration.
On Thursday, union, busine... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | DTA to move from PM&C to Finance | The Digital Transformation Agency will shift to the Department of Finance a year after it was moved from the Social Services portfolio to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed the machinery o... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Better use of data for all Australians | The first Australian Data Strategy (the Strategy) and supporting Action Plan have been launched. It aims to develop a mature data system for all Australians by 2025, and support better use of data by Government throughout the economy.
The S... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Australia reveals its critical technologies of national interest | Artificial intelligence, 5G and 6G technology and quantum computing are among nine critical technologies of immediate national interest to Australia under a new government blueprint.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the Blueprint for... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Govts set first national data sharing priorities | Australian governments will prioritise sharing data related to natural disasters and emergencies, waste and road safety under the first national data sharing work program.
Digital ministers from the Commonwealth, NSW, Victoria, South Austra... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Aus : Australia and New Zealand visits | Annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders' Meeting
On Sunday 30 May, The Hon Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia travelled to Queenstown to meet with The Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand for the annual Australia-Ne... |
| Apr 16, 2021 | DTA to move back to Prime Minister's department | The Digital Transformation Agency will transfer back to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in a move that promises to give the lead IT policy and procurement agency greater clout.
Administrative orders issued on Thursday reveal th... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | From social enterprises to ethical super: Nine women-led businesses dedicated to supporting women during COVID-19, and beyond | The Dream Collective and ShePivots founder Sarah Liu. Source: supplied.
This year’s International Women’s Day has arrived with a renewed sense of urgency.
The pandemic created barriers for women facing domestic violence to access support, c... |
| Aug 3, 2020 | Ministers push to keep digital ID systems uniform | Australian IT ministers have agreed to develop a national roadmap to ensure a consistent approach to digital identity systems across federal, state and territory jurisdictions.
The decision was taken at a sitting of the Australian Data and ... |
| May 15, 2020 | Billions in lost revenue, 10,000 jobs lost: How COVID-19 will undermine Australia’s research capacity | By Frank Larkins, University of Melbourne, and Kylie Walker, Australian National University
Australia’s researchers have answered the call to help with urgent pandemic clinical trials and other research needs, placing other work on hold. Ex... |
| May 12, 2020 | Planning tools to help businesses reopen and be COVIDSafe | The National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) has created an online tool to help businesses develop a plan to keep their workers, customers and the community safe as they reopen or increase their activities in the weeks and months ah... |
| May 12, 2020 | Benefits vs costs: Is it time for pubs and restaurants to re-open? | By Jonathan Karnon, Flinders University, and Ben Mol, Monash University
Nothing our leaders can do now will return the economy to where it was before COVID-19. For one thing, international travel is likely to remain closed for a long time.
... |
| Mar 22, 2020 | Grant applications open to boost female founders | // The $18M ‘Boosting Female Founders’ federal government grant program is now open for applications …
Last September, we brought you news of the Boosting Female Founders Initiative, which was in development at the time, which had put out t... |
| Dec 17, 2019 | Govt rejects calls to give DTA more clout | The federal government has rejected calls to give the Digital Transformation Agency extra clout to drive forward government-wide technology reform, despite pegging its service delivery vision on such improvements.
But it has offered the lea... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Feds to conduct 'urgent' audit to forge new IT blueprint | An urgent audit of the federal government’s IT capability, risks and needs will be conducted in response to David Thodey’s root-and-branch review of the Australian Public Service.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison committed to the audit in the ... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Govts agree on national API standards | Commonwealth, state and territory IT ministers have agreed to a set of national application programming interface (API) design standards to promote interoperability between IT systems.
The decision, taken at the fifth meeting of the Austral... |
| Oct 30, 2019 | Can a govt-wide open source messaging platform really cost just $150k? | The Department of Health has drastically cut down the amount of time taken to send emails to My Aged Care service recipients using the Digital Transformation Agency’s new whole-of-government notifications platform.
The department, which is ... |
| Sep 6, 2019 | Govts band together to create national disability dataset | Federal, state and territory IT ministers have agreed to pull together a national dataset on disabled Australians to start delivering better services.
The decision, taken at the first sitting of the newly re-badged Australian Data and Digit... |
| Aug 4, 2019 | Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines | Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, governments fail to recognize this risk. Kiril... |
| Jul 1, 2019 | Govt asked to create new ISP-level site blocking powers | The government has been asked to formalise content blocking by Australian internet providers during “online crisis events” with new laws.
The proposal is part of a report [pdf] published by Prime Minister & Cabinet on Sunday that was pr... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | DTA to live on within Services Australia | The Digital Transformation Agency will continue to operate as an independent agency under the government’s new centralised service delivery agency, Services Australia.
A DTA spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday there would be no change to th... |
| May 29, 2019 | Services Australia assumes govt-wide IT function, replaces DHS | Australia’s governor-general Peter Cosgrove has officially signed off on a raft of structural reforms to create the government’s new centralised government services agency.
Administrative arrangements orders published on Wednesday afternoon... |
| Mar 19, 2019 | Govt embraces Five Safes in new data sharing guidance | The federal government has released new guidance to agencies on how to use and share personal data while protecting the privacy of Australian citizens.
The Data Sharing Safely [pdf] guidelines, published on Tuesday, are intended to help dat... |
| Sep 28, 2018 | Microsoft has high hopes for Australian government's big data | Microsoft wants the Australian government to close loopholes in proposed data sharing-and-release legislation that it believes could be used to shut down or limit access to data without explanation.
The software giant used a submission [pdf... |
| Aug 10, 2018 | Tank Stream Labs’ Female Entrepreneurs Week | Tank Steam Labs Female Entrepreneur Week- Picture taken from their website From the 13 to 17 August 2018 Tank Stream Labs is hosting its annual Female Entrepreneur week in Perth and Sydney. Head to their website for upcoming events, times a... |
| Aug 9, 2018 | Decryption laws edge closer to reality | The federal government will finally move to introduce legislation for its crackdown on encrypted communications services in the upcoming spring sitting of parliament, a year after it first promised to do so.
It plans to present the legislat... |
| Aug 7, 2018 | To attract top talent, look no further than your own backyard | With the low unemployment rate and scrapping of the 457 visa, it’s increasingly hard to find talent and fill the skills gap, especially in technology and for small businesses.
Rural Australia is fast becoming an area to recruit much sought-... |
| Jul 4, 2018 | Proposed future data sharing laws revealed | The federal government has called for comment on sweeping new laws that propose making far more public data available for sharing and release.
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on Wednesday released an issues paper [pdf] that see... |
| Jan 4, 2018 | Summary: U.K. Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report | On Dec. 20, the U.K. Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee issued its annual report. Published pursuant to the Justice and Security Act 2013, the document provides a comprehensive overview of the committee’s work over the past ye... |
| Gov considers automated decision-making laws | The government has committed to reviewing public sector programs that exchange or match Australians’ data and will consider drafting a legal framework and setting up a statutory agency to audit automated decision-making.
All 56 of the Royal... |
| Stocks close higher Wednesday, Dow surges 400 points as traders grow optimistic on a debt ceiling deal: Live updates | Stocks rose Wednesday as investors hoped congressional leaders and President Joe Biden could come to a deal on the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 408.63 points higher, or 1.24%, t... |
| Asia markets mixed as investors digest economic data from the region, U.S. debt ceiling looms | This is CNBC’s live blog covering Asia-Pacific markets. |
| Morrison spruiks Australia's potential in quantum technology | [This article was first published by The Conversation on November 16, 2021].
Support for a quantum commercialisation hub is part of a plan for “critical technologies” that Scott Morrison will unveil on Wednesday.
The government will invest ... |
| Six “urgent” actions the government can take to support women in the 2023 federal budget | Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
Minister for finance, women and the public service Katy Gallagher said she is considering recommendations to enhance women’s economic equality for the May 2023-24 Budget, with a caution that any measures adopted... |
