Author: James Riley

What lies below? Drones will tell us, definitively 

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
While Australians were celebrating the arrival of 2021, off the coast of eastern Australia the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor was busy mapping the seabed with a drone for a hugely ambitious global project, Seabed 2030, to produce a definitive...

WA invests in graphite manufacturing facility

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
The Western Australian government has granted $2 million to young company International Graphite which plans the state’s first micronising and graphite foil manufacturing facility for the former coal mining...

Q-CTRL and Sydney Uni in quantum control advance

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Researchers at Sydney University and quantum control startup Q-CTRL have detailed a new way to identify sources of error in quantum computers using machine learning techniques which they say...

BYD arrives to heat up local e-bus market

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
A number of companies are now lining up in a race to secure major orders for electric buses from states such as New South Wales determined to electrify their...

Deadline looms: 2021 Awards for Excellence

Posted on   |  by Evie Smith
The final deadline to enter the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence is almost upon us. We want to hear from Australia’s best entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers and commercialisation heroes by...

Brace yourself for global component shortages

Posted on   |  by Yaser Darban
Electronics manufacturers such as Entech Electronics have had to beef up their supply chain and purchasing teams to meet the challenges of a global shortage of electronic components. Yaser...

Resilience in the face of fire, flood and cyber

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
What do bushfires and cyber threats have in common? They are both a fact of life; they are both likely to get worse; and we won’t be able to...

NSW moves ahead with digital ID advisory council

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW Police will have a prominent voice on the state’s newly formed Digital Identity Ministerial Advisory Council (DIMAC) to advise on the government’s strategic direction for digital ID....

Porter ‘open minded’ on software R&D tax

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry minister Christian Porter says he is open-minded about a separate R&D Tax Incentive scheme for software but will not consider the issue until a Senate committee reports in...