Australia has started 2025 without a Chief Scientist and without a chair or deputy chair for its primary industry, innovation and science advisory board. Former Australian chief scientist Dr...
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Gather around dear readers, for it is time to deliver our most popular column of the year. Yes, the InnovationAus.com Ultimate Guide to Summer Reading has landed for 2024....
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US Big Tech firms pressured the Albanese government about the findings of its landmark Privacy Act Review last year ahead of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus’s decision to reject one...
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The federal government will spend more than $50 million enforcing Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s over the next four years, as it steps up its oversight of...
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The first part of the Australian government’s Future Made in Australia legislation passed through the Senate last month, setting up a national interest framework. But the legislation divided Parliament....
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The Albanese government will develop a National AI Capability Plan to better capture the economic and productivity benefits of the technology in Australia as adoption lags behind global peers....
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The Productivity Commission has called for policy ideas to boost productivity through data and digital technologies – as well as by investing in the net-zero transformation – to inform...
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The Sydney Startup Hub home to popular accelerators and dozens of budding companies will be shifted out of the CBD to the Tech Central precinct next year to get...
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Facebook, Google and TikTok parent companies will be charged penalties if they fail to strike new commercial agreements with news publishers under a scheme announced by the Albanese government...
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Key analysis of the impact of sweeping changes to privacy law won’t be released by the government, which has invoked a blanket protection to keep it hidden as the...
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Victoria will deliver a $20 million boost to five priority sectors, including advanced manufacturing and health technologies, through a new industry development fund. The fund, which will provide matched...
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Renewables continue to be the cheapest new-build electricity-generating technology, while nuclear power is around twice as expensive and has “no unique cost advantages” from its long operational life, despite...
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Top legal minds and disability and Indigenous advocates have been appointed to a reinstated administrative decisions watchdog to bolster oversight and tackle systemic issues. The experts arrive as part...
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When federal parliament passed legislation last week which will ban under 16s from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese celebrated. Posting on X, he said: “We’re doing everything we...