Author: James Riley

Manufacturing’s seventh straight month of growth

Posted on   |  by Staff Writers
Manufacturing achieved its seventh straight month of growth in April, and its quickest rate of expansion in three years, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index....

Cybersecurity now the number one business risk

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
Cyber risk, the likelihood of data loss or business disruption resulting from a cyber-attack, is now seen by Australian organisations as one of the biggest risks they face, according...

Renewed calls for change to research investment

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The nation’s peak science lobby has renewed calls for a realignment of the R&D Tax Incentive that creates a premium to reward research collaboration as a way to improve...

Why we need a publicly funded social network

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
I almost bore myself when I start to write about issues with Facebook. The revelations of privacy scandals, data breaches, hate speech, and violence-inducing disinformation by Facebook has become...

A mission to bring research and industry together

Posted on   |  by Larry Marshall
In May 1926, the Australian inventor of the Sunshine Harvester, Hugh McKay, died. His homegrown invention had created the largest factory in Australia at the time, peaking at 3,000...

Climate policy gobbledegook costs local industry

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
The Guardian put it beautifully on Saturday when it said that ‘Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might make solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen’. This is the...

What the EH Holden can teach us about cybersecurity

Posted on   |  by Brian Grant
The World Economic Forum recently pointed out that cyberattacks rank first among global human-caused risks and this year, it’s expected cybercrime will cost the world US $11.4 million each...

Why won’t this govt talk about software?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There is something perplexing about the way our federal government talks about industry development policy, according to Brisbane-based AI scale-up Max Kelsen chief executive Nick Therkelson-Terry. It never talks...

CSIRO action and more cash for energy future

Posted on   |  by Peter Roberts
The federal government and CSIRO have announced new funding and new initiatives to drive research and investment in future energy systems. On Wednesday Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced $540...