Government IT systems that incorrectly penalised welfare recipients remain at breaking point and will continue to malfunction, the Employment department was warned earlier this year by independent ...

The Agency behind My Health Record has gone to market to start carving up the decades-long $780 million Accenture contracts underpinning the national data system, but is sticking with the incumbent ...

The first piece of legislation introduced by new Attorney General Michelle Rowland on Wednesday will place the entire national intelligence community under the oversight of the security watchdog and ...

YouTube will be included in Australia's world-first ban on social media for teenagers, the federal government announced on Wednesday, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the platform. Australia's ...

Australia could reap more than $7 billion each year by reforming uncompetitive R&D tax settings, according to new economic modelling commissioned by the Business Council of Australia, Atlassian and ...

Renewables are the lowest cost new electricity generation technology in Australia, the national science agency has reaffirmed, while nuclear would be from two to six times as expensive. The findings ...

Big Four consulting giant EY will continue its lucrative data work for the tax office under a new deal worth more than $11 million. The Australian Taxation Office has signed a contract with EY for the ...

Organisations deploying multi-AI agent systems risk running into new and complex failure modes multi-agent systems, a new report from the Gradient Institute has warned. Backed by the Department of ...

Gilmour Space Technologies launched its maiden rocket from north Queensland on Wednesday morning, but it crashed shortly after the historic take off. The locally designed and manufactured rocket took ...

The telecommunications industry’s peak body – Communications Alliance – has unveiled a radical restructure under new chief executive Luke Coleman with a sharp focus on carriers, rather than ...

Australian scientists will co-develop electronics and materials in Sydney for a global quantum giant that is racing to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer by the end of the decade. The ...

The returned Albanese government is descending on Canberra with new technology leaders and the Prime Minister’s edict for a “year of delivery”. But much of its tech agenda is stuck in the past, with ...