Twitter accounts that are controlled largely by bots have been observed targeting Australians in the run-up to the Federal Election on 18 May, a researcher from the Queensland University of Technology Digital Media Research Centre claims.

Australians may not have learnt much from the on-again, off-again election campaign that began on 11 April, but one thing has been made abundantly clear: the technology sector in this country is made up of wimps who are afraid to make anything, even an encryption law which they claim could destroy their industry, into an election issue.

Global digital transformation company Schneider Electric has announced a tie-up to supply Australia's biggest electric vehicle charging infrastructure installer JET Charge with charging equipment for car dealer Nissan Australia.