Author: Joseph Brookes

Focus AI regulation on harms, not tech: Jones

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Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has thrown his support behind an AI regulation model that is directed at activity and harms rather than the technology itself, as the government starts...

Steelmakers share $200m in decarbonisation grants

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Steel makers Bluescope and Liberty Steel Australia on Wednesday shared $200 million in federal grants from the debut of the Albanese Government’s $1.9 billion Powering the Regions Fund, with...

Foreign vendor ‘dependence’ risking Aussie AI opportunity

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Universities are calling for a National Centre for AI in education to share best practice and costly infrastructure, warning researchers and educators are currently reliant on foreign vendors and...

Innovation future needs ‘clear-eyed’ plan: Outgoing STA chief

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Australia’s political leaders must make clearer, bolder commitments to funding innovation and the systems needed to exploit it as global competition for new industries reaches unprecedented levels, outgoing Science...

Govt told to up research investment by $2bn a year

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The federal government must increase its investment in research and development by around $2 billion annually to return Australia to average levels for advanced economies, according to the Australian...

Tech projects and consultants to feel the heat in 2024

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A bevy of government tech projects, procurements and landmark legislation will go under the microscope in 2024, as the Albanese government pledges better outcomes in the last full year...

Ring fence basic research funding in ARC overhaul

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Government funding for blue sky research should be protected by a legislated ring-fence in order to reverse decades of decline and to “feed the very beginning” of the innovation...

Govt still drafting response to US green policy

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A taskforce of top officials from the Treasury, Energy and Environment, and Industry portfolios have spent most of the last year preparing a plan to make the Albanese government’s...