Author: Joseph Brookes

Qld turns on innovation funding tap ahead of election

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Grants of up to $25 million for capital works in South East Queensland are now on offer under a push to grow the innovation ecosystem in and around Brisbane....

Outage scrapes in front of new telco rules

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Aussie Broadband has apologised for how it communicated a Friday outage that left customers in Victoria and Tasmania without internet access for half the day, just weeks out from...

Coalition to oppose misinformation laws

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The federal opposition will vote against an Albanese government plan to curb misinformation through an empowered regulator, despite pledging a similar scheme when it was in government. It sets...

Growth grant propels SA AgTech into global market

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Four more early stage companies have been awarded $4 million in grants under the Albanese government’s budding commercialisation program, with South Australian AgTech Seed Terminator landing $3 million. The...

Aged Care’s Salesforce upgrade $283m and rising

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Costs for a new Salesforce-based aged care software system are approaching $300 million and are set to keep climbing, with the department responsible unable to forecast a final cost...

CSIRO’s new green and lean AI capability gets to work

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Artificial intelligence has permeated into all aspects of the CSIRO’s research operations, driving its decision to invest $16 million into a new high performance computer system and raising the...

Govt’s online identity app gets a rebrand

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The Australian government’s digital identity app will be rebranded within months to avoid confusion with the popular services app ahead of the mass expansion of a $1 billion national...