Government to hold industry-wide inquiry after Optus outage

The federal government will hold an industry-wide inquiry following an Optus outage that affected millions of Australians.

8 November, 2023

Digital regulators stress ongoing role in relation to AI

Australia’s digital regulators have made a joint submission about the challenges of AI and how it will affect their regulatory roles.

11 September, 2023

ACMA to establish $10m SenderID registry

ACMA has been tasked with setting up a sender ID registry to curb text message scams.

24 April, 2023

Digital platform regulators make algorithms a top priority

Australia’s leading consumer and privacy bodies have identified the use of algorithms by digital platforms as a hot topic.

7 July, 2022

Turnbull connects greenhouse gasses to Internet-of-Things

Smart, low energy devices zap value of poles and wires.

26 March, 2015

Retune flicks spectrum switch on TVs for Canberra and surrounds

Signal shift to free up lucrative spectrum finally arrives.

20 November, 2014

Kaspersky warns on new ransomware faking AFP, ACC, ACMA online interventions

Malware creators impersonate law enforcement and regulators

28 July, 2014

Fletcher spells out ‘digital by default’ expectations for federal agencies

Ministerial pressure is mounting for agencies to get their act together online ahead of a 2017 deadline.

18 June, 2014

Better signals expected for emergency services

By Paul Hemsley As the federal government prepares to switch broadcasting in Australia from analogue-to-digital technology, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has created a “class licence” that will enable emergency service organisations (ESO) across the nation use 50 MHz of spectrum in the 4.9 GHz band to communicate with headquarters. The wideband spectrum […]

11 June, 2013

States attack emergency spectrum decision

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Leaders in Coalition held states have condemned the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s decision to give police, fire and ambulance services just half of the spectrum allocation they lobbied the federal regulator for. New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria today all slammed the regulator’s decision, further inflaming the cross-jurisdictional […]

31 October, 2012