Author: Joseph Brookes

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Tax Office sharpens crackdown on RDTI cheats

A Sydney businessman and his firms have been ordered to pay more than $13 million in penalties for encouraging clients to lodge over-inflated, inaccurate or unsubstantiated claims for research...

Gambling, tobacco firms booted from R&D Tax Incentive

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Gambling and tobacco firms will be excluded from the Research and Development Tax Incentive from next year, after transparency data laid bare tens of millions of dollars in claims...

Meta to pay $50m over Cambridge Analytica data harvesting

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Meta will pay up to $50 million to users in Australia as part of its settlement with the privacy regulator over the tech giant’s Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal,...

Tightened science diplomacy grants roll out

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Nine Australian researchers will split $6 million in federal funding to work with partners from east Asia on projects like hydrogen, AI, advanced manufacturing and solar technologies after securing...

Govt lays down next quantum challenges

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The federal government will fund exploratory quantum work in biosecurity, health, transport and energy networks with up to $18 million in a bid to develop the local sector and...

How Australia’s Big Tech news ‘incentive’ will work

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Facebook, Google and TikTok parent companies will be charged penalties if they fail to strike new commercial agreements with news publishers under a scheme announced by the Albanese government...

Privacy reform analysis ‘hidden under a rock’

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Key analysis of the impact of sweeping changes to privacy law won’t be released by the government, which has invoked a blanket protection to keep it hidden as the...