Australia’s police forces expect that they will need new digital skills to be effective in their roles over the next three to five years, according to a newly published survey.

A survey of 2000 Australian consumers has shown that Australian banks enjoy a level of trust above that granted by other organisations, with the result that open banking, when it arrives next year, is set to see data sharing between banks, rather than between banks and third parties.

Australian and New Zealand schoolgirls as young as nine have pitched their apps to top executives and engineers in Silicon Valley as part of the Brisbane-founded Tech Girls are Superheroes program.