The Employment department has conceded its automated messages telling jobseekers to work around a government tech issue or risk losing their payments was wrong and has updated the message. But ...

Federal agencies that go rogue and defy whole-of-government digital policies and standards are attracting the attention of the powerful Expenditure Review Committee of Cabinet. Finance minister Katy ...

The federal government’s broad definition of an Australian business is hurting the country’s economic complexity, a group of local defence, technology and space companies collectively worth more than ...

The federal government’s overhaul of aged care technology was poorly planned and beset by delays as consultants and foreign software vendors were handed more than half a billion dollars. Internal ...

Defence spent $90 million before cancelling a tender process, which had already selected Lockheed Martin, to own and operate three to five geostationary satellites, officials have revealed. The ...

Jobseekers are being asked to adjust their reporting to employment service providers to avoid a government tech glitch or risk losing their payments, shifting more burden onto vulnerable people.

Social media companies failing to fight scams on their platforms will be subject to fines of up to $50 million under a new framework brought before Parliament on Thursday. Assistant Treasurer Stephen ...

A multi-billion dollar contract with Lockheed Martin for Australia’s first “sovereign-controlled” military satellite communication constellation has been cancelled by the federal government. Defence ...

Macquarie University has ratcheted-up ambitions for commercialising technology in the semiconductor industry, launching an on-campus Silicon Platforms Lab (SiP Lab) in collaboration with local startup ...

Technology and Defence contractors account for most of the $528 million in outsourced work that federal agencies will bring back in house this financial year under Labor’s directive to rebalance the ...

Southern Launch has cleared a key regulatory hurdle on the way launching its first rocket from the Whalers Way Orbital Complex in late 2025, with construction at the site set to start soon now that it ...

Western Australia has become the first state to set a green hydrogen export target after the arrival of national targets earlier this year, but has avoided specifying a quantity. In its refreshed ...