Author: Joseph Brookes

Mystery govt support for Cochlear’s local expansion

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The New South Wales government will give a multi-million-dollar tax break and infrastructure subsidy to Australian giant Cochlear to expand its 40-year-old Sydney manufacturing facilities. The state government claims...

Private investors to push govt on collective vehicles, skills

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Australia’s private investment community will urge the new Labor government to introduce the limited collective investment vehicles that have stalled in Canberra for five years. Skilled migration and rolling...

UTS, USyd join US quantum ‘yardstick’ project

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Quantum researchers from two Sydney universities will team with the US defence research agency and tech giants to develop better ways of measuring the race towards fault-tolerant quantum computers....

The missing piece in NSW’ grand innovation plan

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New South Wales is on track to become Australia’s first trillion-dollar state economy by the end of the decade, and the government wants to get there sooner and double...

Ransomware, espionage rising factors in data breaches: Report

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Ransomware attacks jumped 13 per cent last year, a larger increase than the previous five years combined, according to analysis of thousands of global cybersecurity incidents which revealed people...

Where will science land in the new Labor government?

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Australian science groups have welcomed a new Labor government and will push it for greater recognition of the science portfolio in its next ministry. With an announcement on the...

NSW opens $8m fund for Tech Central research facilities

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The New South Wales government is offering research facility providers up to $5 million to share infrastructure and expertise with Tech Central in a bid to remove access barriers...