Author: Joseph Brookes

CSIRO claws back $200,000 board member overpayment

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The national science agency has reclaimed most of the $200,000 it overpaid part-time board member David Knox, but some tax and super payments are still outstanding. Last month, the...

$3.4bn Defence accelerator launches under DST watch

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Australia’s new $3.4 billion Defence accelerator launched on Saturday with an interim head, marking the start of the biggest reforms to defence innovation in decades. First on the agenda...

Laureate Fellowships land $54m for long-term research

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Social scientists, chemical engineers and mathematicians are among 17 new Australian Laureate Fellowships sharing in $53.9 million of research funding announced on Monday. Awarded by the Australian Research Council...

Committee call: Time to clean up government grants

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Better rules surrounding tens of billions of dollars in Commonwealth grants are needed to prevent repeats of the Morrison government’s “industrial scale rorting”,  Parliament’s audit committee has recommended. After...

$50m in CRC grants for quantum, turbines and chicken research

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Chicken breeding, quantum computing and wind turbine recycling are among 24 projects sharing in $50 million of funding from the federal government’s long running industry-led research program. To be...

Ed Husic is ‘at war’ with the space industry

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Australia’s local space sector is furious at the Albanese government for cancelling another space program, laying the blame squarely on Industry minister Ed Husic for axing a billion-dollar satellite...

Services Aus to re-examine lobbying scandal

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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has ordered his agency to investigate its exposure to a lobbying scandal that allegedly sought to funnel kickbacks to former minister Stuart Robert for...

Govt’s defence innovation reset needs more work

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The Albanese government’s $3.4 billion defence innovation overhaul does not go far enough and needs more strategic work to “disrupt” a system that has for decades struggled to deliver...