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Victoria will run a pilot of digital driving licences in Ballarat before rolling it out to the entire state.

The state of Victoria will go to the polls on 26 November. Given that, it is easy to understand why the state's transport authority, VicRoads, has jumped ahead of the pack in saying it will issue new licences to those whose documents were compromised in the disastrous Singtel Optus data breach.

Victorian transport authority VicRoads says it will issue new driving licences to 342,000 people in the state who were affected by the massive data breach at telco Singtel Optus.

South Australia will pick up the tab for any residents in the state who are affected by the Optus data breach and need to get a new driver's licence.

The Victoria Government will provide $3.5 million for testing connected and automated vehicle technology on roads in the state, with the aim of making roads in the state safer.

Tollway operator EastLink has begun the second stage of its hands-free driving trials, and will test vehicle to infrastructure communications, after carrying out a number of trials to test technology that assists in hands-free driving.

Driving of the future was on show this week at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, as VicRoads tested a highly automated driving (HAD) vehicle fitted with claimed world-first satellite positioning technology.

Global IT services company Unisys has secured a contract to provide digital workspace services to Victorian road authority VicRoads in a move designed to increase employee effectiveness and collaboration across the agency’s approximately 3500-employee workforce.

Contact centre specialist QPC has appointed Justin Kingma as a senior consultant.

The Victorian Government along with the Australian Road Research Board and La Trobe University have completed the first successful trials of a semi-automated vehicle on Melbourne’s EastLink motorway.

Reaching for mobile phones while driving is dangerous and can increase the risk of crashing by 900% according to the latest research, according to the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA).

If you text and drive you're a 'bloody idiot' and you'll now also face a much harsher penalty in a push from the Victorian state government for tougher texting laws.