On its final sitting day of the year, the Senate passed 31 bills after the Albanese government struck deals around the chamber. The flurry of legislation includes key changes to privacy law, mergers ...

The privacy and information watchdog has slashed dozens of staff in response to a 23 per cent budget cut by government and a review by management consultants, sparking fears it will be ill equipped to ...

Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under the age of 16, with the bill passing in the last hour of Parliament for the year despite opposition from the crossbench ...

A Newcastle venture using breakthrough CSIRO solar thermal technology to reduce industrial emissions has raised $15 million, claiming the biggest ever seed funding round for a CSIRO spinout. Announced ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday introduced legislation to allow the government to pour almost $14 billion into Australia’s fledgling green hydrogen and critical minerals processing industries, ...

Australia’s largest bank and a medical centre have signed on to test Canberra’s verifiable credentials project, which is promising to harden the nation against cyber attacks and scams by draining the ...

Agencies face a new post-Robodebt statutory duty next year to cooperate with Ombudsmen and could be forced to hand over records under legislation that passed the House of Representatives on Thursday.

The federal opposition has accused the government of wedge tactics by bundling a right to sue with other privacy reforms and new doxxing laws, and is threatening to withhold its Senate vote unless the ...

More than 500 basic and applied research projects have shared in $342 million in federal funding to explore areas like high energy batteries, digital inclusion, more climate resilient crops and cloud ...

The head of Australia’s $15 billion manufacturing fund says a pipeline of innovation investments will follow its debut equity deal for a Queensland mining equipment maker, and that its capital will go ...

A media drop and alleged leak has put the corporation in charge of the government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund under scrutiny at its first Senate Estimates appearance since its inaugural deal.