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Employers rolling out AI risk coordinated union action if they deploy the technology without consulting workers, the Australian Council of Trade Unions warned on Friday after a wave of...
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Industry and Science minister Tim Ayres will deliver the National Press Club address as part of the Science Meets Parliament festivities on March 25. The event has been sold...
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The NSW government’s innovation advisory board will remain empty until a government review with no hard deadline is completed, effectively cutting off independent advice that had been in place...
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A two-year study into Australia’s world-first social media age ban is underway, with the findings set to inform a future legislative review and potentially shape how other countries move...
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The Trump administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies’ handling of foreigners’ data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable that such efforts...
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Apple says any move to force open its payments technology to third parties in Australia could put billions of payments at risk, as it defended the fees it charges banks...
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One of Australia’s leading AI researchers will use a major address on Wednesday to warn the country is “dangerously unprepared” to capture the upside of artificial intelligence or to...
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A small and misunderstood cohort of medium-sized firms could hold the key to addressing Australia’s structural prosperity issues, according to the federal government’s top industrial policy advisers. The medium-sized...
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Australia has reached a fork in the road in its policy approach to broadening the prosperity benefits of AI, assistant minister for the Digital Economy Andrew Charlton says, with...
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Australian fintechs are urging the Albanese government to follow NSW counterparts in opening up the government’s financial services deals to the smaller innovative firms, as private backers pull back...
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An upcoming register of tech suppliers that underperform in federal government digital projects will not be shared publicly because of legal risks to the Commonwealth such as defamation. The...
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A union-backed plan to ban unethical suppliers from federal work for five years ran into a roadblock from government agencies and Labor and Liberal senators on Friday. A Senate...
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Australia will open its first commercial semiconductor packaging facility in western Sydney in 2027, creating a strategic toe-hold in a high-value part of the global silicon supply chain. In...