Author: Joseph Brookes

Accessibility issues: RAT tests and the vision impaired

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The at home COVID-19 testing key to Australia’s pandemic recovery is not accessible to blind and low vision users, prompting warnings from advocates the sudden shift to self-testing has...

Gig Guide: Microsoft chief to lead NSW skills board

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There are changes across top tech jobs in the public and private sector while Sydney is asking consultants and Big Tech how to kick start its economic recovery. Australia’s...

McKinsey paid $10k a day for AdBlue analysis

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The federal government is paying a consulting giant nearly $10,000 a day for supply and demand analysis of a critical diesel exhaust fluid but refuses to disclose exactly how...

Funding boost to govt women in STEM programs

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The Industry department has opened a $13 million STEM diversity grants round while the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering has been given $41 million to run a...

Experts who recommended research grants condemn minister’s veto

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The experts who recommended funding for research projects that were later blocked by the acting Education minister late last year have condemned the intervention, warning it “undermines” the independent...