Shadow science minister Paul Fletcher says the “obsessive levels of secrecy” applied to Australia’s billion-dollar investment in California-based startup PsiQuantum raises suspicions that the process was reverse-engineered to a...
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Australia’s $940 million bet on PsiQuantum should be swiftly followed by more direct investments in local quantum businesses and research organisations, according to the country’s newest technology industry association....
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The new chief executive of the Tech Council of Australia is Damian Kassabgi, a former multinational tech executive and adviser to two former Labor prime ministers. Mr Kassabgi, who...
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A group of 20 representatives from industry and academia have been appointed to screen the issues to be contemplated by the federal government’s AI and Copyright References Group. Details...
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An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws has flagged a new way to disrupt the revenue of social media companies like X as part of changes that would...
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A national firearms register will be developed by Australia’s criminal intelligence agency following a $161.3 million commitment from the federal government. The funding will be included in the federal...
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The head of the Australia’s $15 billion industry fund has thrown his support behind the more interventionist approach of the Albanese government, as he prepares to turn on the...
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The people who used to be at the forefront of climate change scepticism, having failed in that attempt, have found a new strategy: to catastrophise the response to the...
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In 1653 Oliver Cromwell gave a speech dissolving the House of Parliament. He didn’t hold back. “Ye have grown intolerably odious to the whole nation” he thundered to the...
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Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer ‘yes’ to this question should perhaps...
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Organisations developing dual-use technologies like quantum computing, lasers, sensors, aerospace and propulsion systems will gain easier imports from the US after Australia received a licencing exemption from American regulations....
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For years, climate crisis experts and amateurs alike repeatedly told us to ‘Follow the Science’. Most of us couldn’t do that, even when we tried. But virtually everyone publicly...
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The federal government must quadruple funding to its innovation procurement program and establish a public sector accelerator to bring down the walls around government contracts for smaller firms, according...
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The business case for a national skills “passport” is being developed by tech services giant Accenture, as the Albanese government warms to a concept proposed decades ago to inject...