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Friday, 28 November 2025 13:17
Teens Take on Canberra: High Court Challenge Filed Against Australia’s Social Media Age Ban
ByAndrew Matler
Australia’s contentious new social media age-restriction laws—praised by some as a necessary safeguard and condemned by others as blunt-force censorship—are now headed for a constitutional…
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Despite the nation falling behind in its housing targets, the Federal Government has left apprentices and employers in limbo with uncertainty of funding beyond Christmas,…
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Friday, 10 October 2025 19:32
Will the U16 social media ban succeed and protect younger users from online harms?
Chris Griffith
The start of Australia’s much discussed Under 16 social media ban is only about 60 sleeps away and speculation on how effective it will be…
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Monday, 18 August 2025 22:23
VIDEO: Greens Senator David Shoebridge talks data privacy, overregulation, government failures and more during TechLeaders 2025
ByAlex Zaharov-Reutt Greens Senator David Shoebridge gave the opening keynote on data privacy, government tech regulation, the under 16s media ban and plenty more on day one…
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Thursday, 27 February 2025 13:09
TechnologyOne secures SaaS+ deal in ‘Federal Government first’
Gordon Peters The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has become the first Federal Government agency to choose TechnologyOne’s SaaS+ solution under the Digital Transformation Agency’s ERP panel.
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Friday, 15 November 2024 14:26
Industry leaders call for more robust ICT procurement practices in Australia
Gordon Peters
New research finds Government ICT procurement policy must be urgently reformed, as Australia has fallen out of step with international practice when it comes to…
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- ICT procurement practices
- Australia
- Government ICT procurement policy
- urgently reformed
- international practice
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- Albanese Government
- ICT industries
- TechnologyOne
- Vault Cloud
- Macquarie Technology Group
- Agile Digital
- Drone Shield
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- Psithur
- Australian Computer Society
GUEST OPINION: Healthcare organisations in Australia are under immense pressure to innovate to better support employees, drive efficiencies, optimise patient outcomes, and ultimately ease the…
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Monday, 10 June 2024 18:16
Tokyo Government launches dating app to boost country birth rate
ByDavid M Williams The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch an official dating app aimed at boosting Japan's dwindling birth rate.
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Thursday, 11 April 2024 11:27
Consumers, businesses and economy to benefit from ‘stronger merger laws’
Gordon Peters
The Federal Government’s announcement that it will move to strengthen Australia’s merger laws, bringing Australia into line with most other developed economies, will benefit Australian…
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- consumers
- businesses
- Economy
- stronger merger laws
- Federal Government
- Gina CassGottlieb
- Chair
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
- competition laws
- merger laws
- Dr Jim Chalmers
- merger regime
- Dr Philip Williams AM
- Frontier Economics
- Professor of Law and Economics
- University of Melbourne
- National Competition Council
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- London School of Economics
- Monash University
Wednesday, 31 January 2024 10:16
Government pours $50 million to improve mobile connectivity in roads
ByKenn Anthony Mendoza
The government will draw $50 million from its "Better Connectivity Plan" into improving coverage on roads and highways, which, it said, will benefit communities and…
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