Victor Dominello was NSW minister for customer service and digital government until the March state election. He is now director of the new Trustworthy Digital Society Hub at UNSW and UTS.

At Uni Sydney Ben Hachey becomes Beamtree Associate Professor in Clinical Informatics, in the medicine faculty. Beamtree is a data analytics service provider.

Deakin U law school dean Jenni Lightowlers is acting executive dean of the business and law faculty. Former ED Mike Ewing is moving to Southern Cross U.

At Monash U, Sarah McDonald becomes PVC Student Experience and Allie Clemans, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching). They are both internal appointments.

Education Minister Jason Clare announces members of the National School Reform Agreement Ministerial Reference Group, including, Linda Graham (QUT), Jae Jung (UNSW) Susan Pascoe (UWA), Alan Reid (Uni SA), Ruth Wallace (Charles Darwin U). The reference group will advise the expert panel that is advising ministers on reforms that should be tied to funding for the next National School Reform Agreement.

The NSW Government’s Smart Sensing Network announces “grand challenge” funding for, * Macquarie U, Western Sydney Uni, Cochlear, Google: motion optic and sound sensors in interactive comms * Macquarie U, Uni Wollongong, CEE Hydrosystems: smart sonar, accessible hydrography * UNSW, UTS, BioPoint Ltd: mobile detection water pathogens * Western Sydney U, Macquarie U ARC EntoTech: flies in waste recovery * UNSW, UTS, Schematic Intel and NSW SES: flood intel for western NSW