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Imagine if you could choose to have a digital identity established with a ‘trusted digital identity provider’ -- and use that to apply for a passport, mobile phone, bank account or private health insurance plan, within seconds. Imagine if such a system meant that your telco, or bank, or insurance…

Washington’s ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy says it’s possible Julian Assange could get a David Hicks-style plea deal to let him come back to Australia, and Bruce Lehrmann reckons he should get $6 million compensation because he ‘may never work again’.

Small businesses feel excluded from Canberra’s “in-crowd” of suppliers and say competition mechanisms -- including the Albanese government’s latest attempt -- are being overlooked. A new paper reveals the frustrations in an $80 billion annual spend, including complaints of an uncompetitive panel arrangements, an opaque tender pipeline, large companies using…

Exclusive: Department’s $32,000 contract, which comes after PwC tax leak scandal, slammed as ‘laughable scenario’

The Australian government’s cyber experts were not consulted on the awarding of a $23 million grant to a peak body without tender to train thousands of “cyber wardens”, while Treasury is yet to explain how it managed any conflicts of interest. In the May Budget the Albanese government allocated $23.4…

It could cut years off the process to extend light rail to Woden.

Lawyer Annette Musolino is on leave, as PM’s department assistant secretary Russell De Burgh is replaced on staff listing

PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY face scrutiny as critics warn core functions of democracy should not be outsourced

Greens senator repeatedly asks firm to reveal which department was implicated but question taken on notice