Author: Joseph Brookes

CRCs across govt can fill R&D ‘missing middle’

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Cooperative Research Centres are seeking an expanded role that would allow them to access government funding beyond the Industry department and help deliver flagship programs like the National Reconstruction...

Three new CRCs backed with $158m

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Three new Cooperative Research Centres will launch with $158 million in federal co-funding announced Thursday to start producing regenerative therapies, advance 3D printing and innovate in the care economy....

Labor to tip $1.2bn into critical minerals reserve

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Australia will begin stockpiling critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and silicon from 2026 to insulate against geopolitical shocks and build up a fledgling processing industry if Labor is re-elected....

AI’s economic gains to outweigh its climate toll: IMF

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Artificial intelligence technologies will boost global output by 0.5 per cent a year to 2030, far outweighing the costs of rising carbon emissions from the power-hungry data centres running...

Google backtracks on cookies, again

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Google has backflipped on a promise to allow users to easily opt out of third-party cookies in its market leading browser, announcing overnight it will not introduce the standalone...

DFAT handballs undersea cable centre to consultants

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A key element of Australia’s attempt to protect and leverage undersea cables in the Pacific will be led by management consultants after the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade outsourced its...

TechOne calls for PM&C or Treasury to lead innovation push

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Australia’s innovation struggles are an intergenerational risk akin to the climate crisis, according to software powerhouse TechnologyOne, which on Thursday mapped out a “Team Australia” plan to fix it....

Aussie scientists plot US ‘brain gain’ as a Trump dividend

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Australian scientists have hatched a plan to recruit and repatriate US-based counterparts fleeing President Trump’s multi-billion-dollar research purge with competitive relocation packages. The Australian Academy of Science on Thursday...

Labor pledges $100m boost to Perth science centre

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Science minister Ed Husic has dangled a $100 million upgrade to Perth’s largest science education centre if the Albanese government is re-elected, but says it will be up to...