The Industry department will stop publicly reporting progress against the Albanese government’s goal of reaching 1.2 million Australian tech jobs by 2030, effectively burying the flagship target.
InnovationAus.com can reveal the performance metric was scrapped after slower-than-expected jobs growth put the goal increasingly out of reach for the Department of Industry, Science and Resources.
Tech jobs fell for the first time in a decade in 2025, with DISR projections showing …
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