A software-specific working group for the research and development tax incentive would have avoided the recent challenges the scheme has faced, but was repeatedly rejected by the federal government...
Policy
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The latest round of federal government manufacturing grants has seen 19 Victorian manufacturers share in $94 million. Industry Minister Angus Taylor announced the Modern Manufacturing Initiative grants on Tuesday,...
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Northern Territory Chief Minister and Treasurer Michael Gunner delivered an NT budget on Tuesday with infrastructure support funding for advanced manufacturing and critical minerals processing before announcing his resignation,...
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The federal government’s long-running, $450 million digital identity scheme is “over-engineered” and has cost too much for what has been delivered so far, according to former government chief information...
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Big Tech companies should be automatically designated under the media bargaining code and ministerial discretion scrapped in order to avoid the initiative being a “missed opportunity”, a new Reset...
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Australia and its allies are now faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a greenfield quantum technology industry, predicted by analysts to be worth more than $1 trillion over...
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Are you a passionate participant in the Australian innovation ecosystem? Do you have a burning set of industry policy ideas that you believe will help our local innovators to...
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Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has outlined a “new playbook” for the Australian economy, with a focus on boosting advanced manufacturing, encouraging commercialisation and nurturing tech jobs. In a speech...
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There has been a “failure” by the Coalition to deliver adequate Defence capability over the last decade, with the cancelling of programs such as the recent drone surveillance initiative...
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The New South Wales Government on Wednesday shortlisted three groups of companies to establish a key part of Australia’s first renewable energy zone in the state’s central-west. The groups...
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Former Minerals Council chief Mitchell Hooke has been appointed to the federal government’s Entrepreneurs’ Programme advisory committee, with more than half of the committee members added this year. Four...
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In a significant shift from recent innovation policy, the Victorian government will take direct equity stakes in high-growth local companies through a new pilot fund, announced as part of...
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US consulting giant Deloitte will be paid nearly $250,000 over three months to review the federal government’s $150 million Moon to Mars program. Launched in late 2020, the Moon...
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This fourth article in the Defending the NDIS series is an insider’s look at what happened when the government took a wrecking ball to the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s...