Almost all mobile phones in Australia will receive a test emergency alert in late July as the federal government prepares to roll out a new warning system for bushfires, floods, storms, and biosecurity hazards. The long-awaited AusAlert system will undergo a national test on Monday, July 27, before it officially
Remember the yarn about the Department of Social Services screwing up the management of $5 billion of aged pension payments? That was the big revelation in the performance audit of the aged pension payment system released by the Australian National Audit Office. Auditors pointed to a range of problems that
Defence has signed off on a $4 billion deal to build eight heavy landing craft ships capable of delivering more than 500 tonnes of equipment and supplies into littoral waters — to put it more simply, the shallows of operational zones. As the army continues to modernise its structure and
An Australian man reported by the ABC to have previously been an employee of the highly secretive Australian Signals Directorate has been sentenced to more than seven years’ jail time after pleading guilty and being convicted of selling restricted cyber-exploit tools to a Russian malicious software broker. A statement from
Education bureaucrat Jasmina Joldić has weighed in on the likely direction of regulatory reform in the higher education sector. Speaking at the Universities Australia Solution Summit, Joldić said the federal department was focused on “decluttering” regulation for higher education across all levels of government. The deputy secretary for higher education,
The Department of Industry, Science, and Resources has published a statement endorsing an AI impact declaration finalised at the recent AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The declaration outlines the need for international collaboration across human capital, inclusion for social empowerment, safe and trusted AI, science, democratising AI resources, resilience,
The Australian Signals Directorate has not-so-quietly entered the enterprise software security market, publicly releasing its own malicious software analysis tool to safely extract and analyse nasty payloads and associated backdoor entry attempts to gain access to secure systems. The task was previously outsourced to major IT security players. In a
An independent probe into mandatory requirements for federal departments to make their use of artificial intelligence both public and transparent has found that almost one-third of organisations in the public sector are yet to pass muster. As multinational and US AI giants continue to lobby policymakers for tax concessions and
Anthony Albanese has revealed his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, will travel to Australia from March 3-6. The Australian trip next month will see Carney visit Sydney and Canberra, with a formal address to be made in the federal parliament. Albanese said he planned to discuss with Carney ways to shape
Agency evidence in NSW budget estimates has put the average waiting time for a NSW driver’s licence at 19 days — one short of the 20 maximum benchmark. The introduction of an overseas licence transfer scheme last year has inundated Service NSW with requests for driver tests. As of February, overseas licence
Commissioner and former High Court judge Virginia Bell revealed her approach at the first public hearing in Sydney on Tuesday. The prevalence of antisemitism nationwide, its drivers and how law enforcement and intelligence are equipped to combat it are key focuses of the inquiry. The probe will use a definition
In the latest in a series of diplomatic rollbacks, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has announced the closure of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. In its January 30 statement, the department said that the embassy would cease operations on June 30, 2026 — a decision
Almost all mobile phones in Australia will receive a test emergency alert in late July as the federal government prepares to roll out a new warning system for bushfires, floods, storms, and biosecurity hazards. The long-awaited AusAlert system will undergo a national test on Monday, July 27, before it officially
Remember the yarn about the Department of Social Services screwing up the management of $5 billion of aged pension payments? That was the big revelation in the performance audit of the aged pension payment system released by the Australian National Audit Office. Auditors pointed to a range of problems that
Defence has signed off on a $4 billion deal to build eight heavy landing craft ships capable of delivering more than 500 tonnes of equipment and supplies into littoral waters — to put it more simply, the shallows of operational zones. As the army continues to modernise its structure and
An Australian man reported by the ABC to have previously been an employee of the highly secretive Australian Signals Directorate has been sentenced to more than seven years’ jail time after pleading guilty and being convicted of selling restricted cyber-exploit tools to a Russian malicious software broker. A statement from
Education bureaucrat Jasmina Joldić has weighed in on the likely direction of regulatory reform in the higher education sector. Speaking at the Universities Australia Solution Summit, Joldić said the federal department was focused on “decluttering” regulation for higher education across all levels of government. The deputy secretary for higher education,
The Department of Industry, Science, and Resources has published a statement endorsing an AI impact declaration finalised at the recent AI Impact Summit in New Delhi. The declaration outlines the need for international collaboration across human capital, inclusion for social empowerment, safe and trusted AI, science, democratising AI resources, resilience,
The Australian Signals Directorate has not-so-quietly entered the enterprise software security market, publicly releasing its own malicious software analysis tool to safely extract and analyse nasty payloads and associated backdoor entry attempts to gain access to secure systems. The task was previously outsourced to major IT security players. In a
An independent probe into mandatory requirements for federal departments to make their use of artificial intelligence both public and transparent has found that almost one-third of organisations in the public sector are yet to pass muster. As multinational and US AI giants continue to lobby policymakers for tax concessions and
Anthony Albanese has revealed his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, will travel to Australia from March 3-6. The Australian trip next month will see Carney visit Sydney and Canberra, with a formal address to be made in the federal parliament. Albanese said he planned to discuss with Carney ways to shape
Agency evidence in NSW budget estimates has put the average waiting time for a NSW driver’s licence at 19 days — one short of the 20 maximum benchmark. The introduction of an overseas licence transfer scheme last year has inundated Service NSW with requests for driver tests. As of February, overseas licence
Commissioner and former High Court judge Virginia Bell revealed her approach at the first public hearing in Sydney on Tuesday. The prevalence of antisemitism nationwide, its drivers and how law enforcement and intelligence are equipped to combat it are key focuses of the inquiry. The probe will use a definition
In the latest in a series of diplomatic rollbacks, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has announced the closure of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. In its January 30 statement, the department said that the embassy would cease operations on June 30, 2026 — a decision
