Author: Joseph Brookes

Blast off: SERD proposes radical mission style innovation

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A root and branch review of Australia’s R&D system has proposed channelling it into a handful of “focus areas” with multi-decade horizons like energy and health, while backing it...

AWS’s Canberra mega-deal surges past $400m

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A controversial AWS whole of government agreement has surged to more than $400 million in just four months, putting it on pace to eclipse both previous iterations by the...

‘Troubling’ investment settings blocking breakthroughs

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The university sector’s peak body will on Wednesday push for new tax breaks for companies that partner with universities on research and development, even if it means reducing the...

Independent MP moves to clean up Robodebt

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Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie on Monday accused the Prime Minister of paying lip service to Robodebt reforms while introducing his own legislation to act on two-year old recommendations....

Australia’s automated compliance tech a global outlier

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An urgent review of the federal government’s automated welfare compliance system shows Australia’s punitive scheme is a global outlier, adding to doubts about the capability and accountability of senior...

Cross-Tasman open access push to unlock research

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Australian and New Zealand universities are teaming up to strike better open access deals with research publishers, in one of the first tests of how an alliance model could...

Chalmers agrees to ‘make AI a national priority’

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Dedicated industry and government plans to harness artificial intelligence will be developed with urgency after the Albanese government and stakeholders agreed to elevate the frontier technology to a “national...