Author: Justin Hendry

Budget 2026: A turning point for deep tech

Posted on   |  by Ben Cade
Australia has no shortage of innovative deep tech startups. But historically, it has lacked a clear path from a promising prototype to large-scale commercial success. For decades, too many...

Closing Australia’s medtech gap starts with procurement

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia has spent years asking how to produce more world-class healthcare innovation. A more urgent question is now emerging: why are so few of those innovations making it into Australian...

Australia’s real AI risk is falling behind on skills

Posted on   |  by Suzanne Prescott
Australia’s ability to lift productivity from AI will depend less on the technology itself and more on building workforce capability.  With AI adoption accelerating across sectors, the Future Skills...

CGT startup risk overshadows ‘positive’ RDTI reforms

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Long-awaited reforms to tax breaks for research and development have been largely welcomed by the tech sector as a positive first step in the government’s response to a landmark...

Australia ‘lobbying hard’ for joint space mission: PM

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Anthony Albanese says the federal government has been “lobbying hard” to send qualified astronaut and Australian of the Year Katherine Bennell-Pegg to space on one of the last International...

Budget pours $1.8bn into critical govt IT systems

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will spend another $136.1 million upgrading the legacy systems behind the country’s business registers, bringing new money for the latest attempt at the long-running rebuild to...

NSW Police tech overhaul stalls as costs blow out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A decade-long upgrade of New South Wales’ core policing system will cost another $493 million and take four years more to complete, a damning audit of the troubled project...