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We can diagnose a broken innovation system. But can we fix it?

Anyone who has worked in Australian research and innovation policy for more than a decade will recognise the pattern. The Chief Scientist's The Chance to Change report (2000), the...

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Security agencies’ chilling warning on artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is driving the radicalisation of vulnerable Australians “at rapid speed” and helping plan sophisticated attacks, law enforcement and intelligence agencies...

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Andrew Hastie on building strategic industry capability

The conservative think tank Centre for Independent Studies seemed an unusual place for Andrew Hastie to present a vision for interventionist industrial policy, but we are living in...

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NFR invests $245 million into Austal manufacturing facility

The National Reconstruction Fund is backing the construction of a Western Australian advanced manufacturing facility with a $245 million investment, its biggest since opening in...

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Monster thermal battery to test cleaner heavy industry

The green energy innovation agency will tip up to $75 million into one of the largest industrial heat battery demonstration projects in the world in Queensland a bid to electrify...

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Cicada onboards new advisors to accelerate research outcomes

An entrepreneurial biomedical engineer and a former CSIRO associate director are joining deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations as it accelerates efforts to commercialise Australian...

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Australia’s AI agent liability gap needs urgent fix, expert says

A former member of the government’s AI Expert Group has warned Australia’s laws are unclear on where responsibility for AI agents starts and ends, leaving OpenAI unlikely to face...