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Posted on 25 November 202205 December 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 15

Mark Dreyfus 15

Parliament sat Monday through Thursday this week, with the Senate also sitting on Friday. The National Anti-Corruption Commission legislation trundles along, we find out just how dodgy Scott Morrison’s ministerial appointments were, and much more.

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Posted on 28 October 202228 October 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 11

Jim Chalmers Budget Speech

It was Budget week, a week full of more annual reports, and the week we saw the proposed changes to the Privacy Act in the wake of the Optus data breach — and all the other recent breaches.

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Posted on 24 September 202225 September 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 6

Anthony Albanese

When Parliament isn’t sitting the ministers have time to get some projects under way. But the big item this time is a scathing report on the Digital Transformation Agency. There’s also a new quantum science advisory panel, and AUKUS celebrates it first birthday.

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Posted on 10 September 202210 September 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 5

Anthony Albanese

News coverage of the Albanese government’s activities this week quite rightly focused on that big-ticket item, the climate change legislation. But there were still some things of interest to our cyber-digital lens, plus some high-speed rail.

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Posted on 04 September 202204 September 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 4

Anthony Albanese speaking at the National Press Club

This week the government released draft legislation for small business tax incentives including a Technology Investment Boost, the eSafety released a slab of documents relating to the Online Safety Act, and more.

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Posted on 28 August 202204 September 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 3

Anthony Albanese hero image 3

In the three weeks since the first sitting of the Albanese Labor government, the major developments in the digital and cyber realms have been about robodebt royal commission and the COVIDSafe app.

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