ADF capability snapshot 2016: C4ISR—winning in the networked battlespace
Overview This paper provides an assessment and overview of the ADF’s command, control, computing, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (known commonly as ‘C4ISR’) capabilities...
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The privatisation of Australia’s Medicare organisation has become a hot issue in this election with the Labor party accusing the Liberals of wanting to privatise Medicare. The federal government...
View ArticleHow the UK press woke up to Brexit with that morning-after feeling
This article suggests that the Brexit vote was not - as suggested by journalists and campaigners on both sides - a kind of anti-establishment insurgency. Justin Lewis, Professor of Communication at...
View ArticleIntroduction to industrial carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a process used to capture carbon dioxide gas (CO2) that is produced by power stations or other types of industrial facilities. To keep CO2 out of the atmosphere,...
View ArticleSaying publishers’ anti-adblock tactics are illegal, a European privacy...
Over the past few months, Alexander Hanff, CEO of the London-based privacy advocacy and consulting firm Think Privacy, has made the rounds both on Twitter and in regulators’ offices across Europe to...
View ArticleRisks, ethics and consent: Australia shouldn’t become the world’s nuclear...
Last month, the South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission recommended that the state government develop a business venture to store a large fraction of the world’s high- and...
View ArticleSurveillance discourse in UK broadcasting since the Snowden revelations
The surveillance discourse in British broadcast news since the Snowden revelations covers justifications and challenges. Justification focuses on authorisation and rationalisation strategies stating...
View ArticleWholesale ADSL service declaration inquiry: discussion paper
On 4 July 2016, the ACCC issued a discussion paper for the wholesale ADSL service declaration inquiry seeking industry views on whether the wholesale ADSL service should continue to be declared. A...
View ArticleQueensland biomedical and life sciences 10 year roadmap: discussion paper
As part of the A$405 million Accelerating Advance Queensland initiative, the Queensland Government is creating an environment to foster emerging and priority sectors with global growth potential. The...
View ArticleSpecial report: technology helps aged care go mobile
Online is no longer enough for residential and community aged care workers. They need access to information and applications where they are; whether that is at the point of care or on the road. As a...
View ArticleBulgaria enacts open source government software
A recent legislative amendment in Bulgaria means that it's now law that software developed for the government must be open source. From now on, Bulgarian government contracts which include computer...
View ArticleCSIRO staff concerned redundancies will significantly reduce northern...
The CSIRO Staff Association says the company's northern Australian footprint will be significantly reduced after its redundancy process is complete. The publicly-funded scientific institution has been...
View ArticleAustralian border security and unmanned maritime vehicles
Protecting the sovereignty of our maritime borders has never been more difficult than it is today. Australia must identify strategies for pre-positioning our finite maritime response capabilities in...
View ArticleReality check - reliable national data from general practice electronic...
Since 1998, data about general practice activity in Australia has been collected, analysed and disseminated through the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program. BEACH has provided...
View ArticleSouth Australian murder appeal could have significant repercussions
A man's bid to have his murder conviction overturned in South Australia, which could have repercussions for hundreds of other cases, has split the state's Court of Criminal Appeal and will now go to...
View ArticleDrones and Chilcot: lessons Australia needs to learn quickly
The lessons evident in the Chilcot report, and summarised by Sir John Chilcot in his public statement, should also be heeded by Australia. This week, Australia welcomed US Vice-President Joe Biden with...
View ArticleWhat we really need from innovation in Australia
Just a day after the federal election, it had already been pointed out that innovation politics had paid out some harsh lessons for the Coalition. The issue was not only the loss of Wyatt Roy, the...
View ArticleInternational policy transfer in the road sector: from Australia to Sweden
In Australia, governments have realised the potential of extending commercial telematics services into the regulatory context. The Intelligent Access Program (IAP) provided the first national...
View ArticleNational research infrastructure capability issues paper
The paper presents a range of issues relating to national research infrastructure capability areas and is the first step in working towards a shared view of the capabilities that require national...
View ArticleDeterrence in cyberspace: different domain, different rules
Overview In a society that’s now reliant on cyberspace for everyday life, and when everything from cars, electricity grids and dams to weapons systems is connected to a network, the potential effects...
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