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State and federal public service employees across the country have been dealt major blows as governments attempt to grapple with the economic impacts of COVID-19.

Leading scientists, researchers and innovators from across Australia and New Zealand have united to provide governments with the latest evidence to assist with the coronavirus pandemic.

Department of Health secretary Glenys Beauchamp has returned from leave just days into her retirement. Health Minister Greg Hunt said his outgoing secretary had offered to postpone her retirement while her successor — chief medical officer Brendan Murphy — handles Australia’s response to the coronavirus. The World Health Organisation today declared the virus a global […]

Cyber security experts visited capital cities across Australia to brainstorm ways of  protecting the country from cyber threats. Sixty experts attended the Cyber 2020 Forum at Perth’s Edith Cowan University to help develop a new national cyber strategy. The forum focused on four themes including emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities and ways to build cyber skills […]

The national science agency has developed an artificial intelligence technology roadmap for the government which prioritises health, infrastructure, and the environment.

Australia’s science agency has hit back at a recent article published in The Australian that claimed departments and agencies engaged in contracts with Chinese government companies had upped their risk-­assessment procedures due to “heightened awareness” of foreign interference, and that the CSIRO, in particular, had established a committee in response to such interference.

Labor and the union representing Australia’s national science agency have ramped up their opposition to staffing caps, while the agency has appeared before the Fair Work Commission.

CSIRO staff have voiced their concerns over the federal government’s public service staffing cap, arguing that it could harm the organisation in the long term. The coalition’s Average Staffing Level Cap was introduced in the 2015-16 federal budget as an effort to restrict government employment numbers to 2006-07 levels. 

Researchers at CSIRO’s Data61 have developed a public dataset that could help cybersecurity specialists predict future cyberattacks. It comes days after numerous hospitals across Victoria were victims of security attacks.

Amy Thunig and Narelle Underwood have been recognised as the most outstanding up-and-coming female leaders in the public sector at the Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. The annual awards ceremony — now in its seventh year — was held in Sydney on Friday. Finalists in a range of categories attended from across Australia. Any woman working […]

The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner has published a book on the profound social, technological, and ethical issues that are rearing their heads the rise of artificial intelligence, co-authored by eight experts and specifically aimed at public servants.