Author: Joseph Brookes

Queensland moves on data breach notification scheme

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The Queensland state government is considering a mandatory data breach notification scheme among several privacy and information sharing reforms in the works. The scheme would force agencies to report...

Australia’s quantum leap just got real: Chief Scientist

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As quantum technologies promise to disrupt conventional computing and its underlying semiconductor industry, a Sydney company’s world first offers a chance for Australia to straddle the change while pushing...

We’ll fight to keep quantum ‘heroes’ here: Husic

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A small team of physicists in Sydney have been lauded as “national heroes” by new Science and Industry minister Ed Husic after they revealed a quantum computing breakthrough set...

Dan Andrews’ $100m commercialisation fund for Vic uni’s

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The Victorian government will provide $100 million in pre-seed investment funding to the state’s nine universities over five years to support research commercialisation. Each university will co-design their own...

Homegrown quantum breakthrough answers 63-year science challenge

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Pioneering Australian deep tech startup Silicon Quantum Computing has claimed a breakthrough by creating the world’s first integrated circuit manufactured at an atomic scale. The quantum processor allowed the...

NSW Budget: $700m innovation fund unveiled

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New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean’s first budget has billions for science, innovation and clean energy, but the state’s Digital Restart Fund for government technology and services upgrades was...

$38m EV infrastructure charge up in NSW budget

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Tuesday’s New South Wales state budget includes $38 million more for electric vehicle charging infrastructure, pushing the state’s total electric vehicle package past $630 million. The new money will...