13+ hour, 44+ min ago   (151+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. ERA replaces the Financial Reporting Council, the Australian Accounting Standards Board, and the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. The advertisement is seeking people outside the Big Four firms to fill…...

22+ hour, 13+ min ago   (172+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Independent Senator Fatima Payman is full of praise for the Department of Parliamentary Services’ fast action to rectify design faults on updated Senate estimates pages. Payman raised concerns more than…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (171+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. When it comes to conferences hard-ramping the latest cult of artificial intelligence, nothing is worse than a senior public servant courteously dampening the meme-du-jour of alleged computational breakthroughs by pointing…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (193+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Senator Raff Ciccone has used an adjournment speech in the Senate to remind parliamentary colleagues to reflect on their behaviour when engaging with public servants’ evidence in social media posts....

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (216+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Intelligence Agencies / Police / Crime The Australian Federal Police has published a plan to safeguard the use of AI in national law enforcement. The AFP’s first AI strategy promises that the…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (237+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. Independent Member for Curtin Kate Chaney has introduced a bill to establish a mandatory framework for automated decision-making (ADM) in government. Introduced today, the bill seeks to directly address ongoing…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (529+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The whole-of-government Microsoft agreement fixed what agencies pay per unit. But it settled nothing about how many units they buy. Migration was the easy part. Cloud bills don’t just blow…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (179+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Australian parliament’s website has been altered to make it more difficult for stakeholders to see how many Senate estimates responses are outstanding from ministers and their departments. A change…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (207+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. If Australia doesn’t push harder to build sovereign models and invest in AI skills, we risk hosting the world’s data centres while failing to gain many of the benefits. That’s…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (204+ words) Introductory offer: Subscribe for 50% off unlimited access to The Mandarin. The Commonwealth government’s biggest technology suppliers have been advised to comply with a raft of new conditions that ensure strict sovereign data protections and bolster domestic economic benefits. In a…...