The world needs huge quantities of critical minerals to make batteries, electric vehicles, wind turbines, mobile phones, computers and advanced weaponry. Many of these minerals lie under Australian soil....
Policy
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A further slash of Canberra consultants and a hike on student visa fees will pay for Labor’s election promises, Treasurer Jim Chalmers revealed Monday in a release of costings...
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Australia will begin stockpiling critical minerals like lithium, cobalt and silicon from 2026 to insulate against geopolitical shocks and build up a fledgling processing industry if Labor is re-elected....
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The nation’s peak industry lobby AiGroup has called for immediate and substantial structural changes to Australia’s R&D system, with a key focus on commercialisation efforts, rather than simply pouring...
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Australia’s innovation struggles are an intergenerational risk akin to the climate crisis, according to software powerhouse TechnologyOne, which on Thursday mapped out a “Team Australia” plan to fix it....
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Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge in the US has ruled, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for...
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Christopher Krebs, whom President Donald Trump fired as head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in 2020, has announced he is leaving cybersecurity company SentinelOne following pressure...
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If there was $26 billion worth of potential investment in infrastructure for the resources sector on the table and ready to be spent in the next five years, governments...
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The federal government must use its generational review of the R&D system to link it to industry policy, according to robotics and artificial intelligence groups, which say the coordination...
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Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government is committed to finalising its risk-based model for regulating AI despite pull-back in the United States and the European Union. In...
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TAFE institutes are demanding a bigger role in the national R&D system, proposing a Canadian-style approach of direct applied research funding to leverage their industry connections and nation-wide network....
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Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has taken the stand at a high-stakes trial in Washington over US antitrust enforcers’ claims that the company spent billions of dollars to...
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Independent senator David Pocock would throw his weight behind lifting R&D investment, startup support and responsible innovation in a second term, saying politicians need to do more to back...
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Seven Republican US senators have sent a letter to US Commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, urging him to scrap a Biden administration rule restricting global access to AI chips before...