Author: Joseph Brookes

Jason Clare’s long road to the Education portfolio

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Higher education and research stakeholders have issued a warm welcome to Australia’s newest Education minister Jason Clare, despite his arrival coming as a surprise to many. Groups say they...

Contracts roll out for SA nuclear waste dump

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The Australian government is proceeding with the development of a controversial radioactive waste facility in South Australia, handing out several contracts despite an ongoing legal challenge from Traditional Owners...

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....