Richard Marles says Labor will bring forward $1 billion in defence spending in the budget; second lady Usha Vance to visit ...

The first-term ACT senator has weaned himself off the political campaign group’s money. Some in the teal and independent ...

Speaking on Seven’s Sunrise, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the bill relief was important and Labor was “proud” to ...

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Australia’s encryption-busting laws were used by federal police for the first time last year to force at least one undisclosed tech company to provide assistance, in an escalation of its crackdown on ...

The federal government has hit pause on plans to regulate AI through the imposition of mandatory guardrails, upended by a fast moving and freewheeling Trump administration that is headed in the ...

An independent review of Australia’s intelligence community has called on the Albanese government to scope a national security fund for dual-use tech that could help agencies like ASIO and the Federal ...

The Finance department must start taking action to lift contract management capability across the public service, an inquiry has found after examining a string of contracting failures and scandals.

The world’s biggest cloud providers are the main roadblock to a flourishing sovereign cloud market, leading organisations to accept “neutered” clouds without the latest innovations. That’s according ...

Encrypted messaging apps are in widespread use by bureaucrats with little guidance on information governance, according to a first of its kind report that has raised doubts about legal obligations and ...

The Albanese government has committed to review Australia’s financial regulatory sandbox as part of a suite of reforms to regulate crypto exchanges and other digital asset platforms. The review, which ...