Author: Joseph Brookes

Business lobby claims corruption ‘backdoor’ in FMiA bill

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The Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia agenda has opened a “backdoor” to union corruption and lacks the pace and detail of competing global efforts, business groups claimed on...

Optus outage: Telcos hit with customer communications rules

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Telcos will be required to keep customers informed about crippling network outages via the internet, social media and news bulletins, under new industry standards being developed in the wake...

$93m in grants kickstart researchers’ early careers

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200 early career researchers have secured $93 million of federal grants for multi-year projects, including the deployment of 6G, membranes that capture CO2, and exploring how workers are training...

NRF Corporation under audit office microscope

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The establishment of a corporation in charge of the Albanese government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund is being audited, with an outside firm quietly tapped to assist the federal audit...

Digital passenger cards to expand beyond Qantas, air travel

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A long-sought digital traveller declaration system being trialled by Qantas and the Australian Border Force will be expanded to other airlines and cruise ships under an iterative, user focused...

WA casts its own VC net to build startup scene

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The Western Australian government has followed other states in offering to tip into private venture capital funds if they back homegrown startups and establish a local presence. The state...

Scorecard sparks debate on the future of NSW innovation

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New South Wales is producing some of the world’s best innovation inputs like research and workforce but is struggling to turn them into outputs like economic growth and productivity....