Human rights and health groups have urged the Australian government to back a full waiver of intellectual property rules around Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments after labelling a leaked...
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Pay-day loan companies and other non-bank lenders will be added to Australia’s data portability scheme under the federal government’s plan to expand the Consumer Data Right across the finance...
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Researchers at Curtin University have recovered a meteorite in the Western Australian outback using a new drone-mounted AI scanner. The meteorite was recovered at the end of last year...
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Australian tech company Q-CTRL has demonstrated that its software tools can deliver up to a 9000 times increase in quantum algorithmic success, marking an “enormous step” towards achieving quantum...
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In a year marked by so much public discussion about the importance of diversity, it is heartening to see such impressive female representation among our chief scientists around the...
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A new quantum computing education and research hub has been unveiled at the University of Western Australia as Australia looks to strengthen its quantum capability. Quantum computing is expected...
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The federal government will provide $20 million to a satellite hub in Adelaide, the second major Commonwealth manufacturing grant going towards South Australia in the lead up to the...
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Greater collaboration is needed between governments and the private sector to address the most pressing issues facing the world, according to the general partner of a new Australian $75...
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The $1.3 billion manufacturing grants program is being used as an “election slush fund” by the federal government, with delays in unlocking funding creating a potential national security risk,...
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A strategic approach to science skills is needed to create a “new era of economic opportunity” built on the federal government’s $2.2 billion research commercialisation plan, the president of...
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Australia’s quantum academics need to accept the government will limit their international collaborations with world leading researchers because of an increasingly contested geopolitical environment, according to Chief Defence Scientist...
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Two recent announcements hint at a seismic shift about to hit Australia’s coal industry. Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield put forward an extraordinary joint bid to...
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Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley has backed the domestic manufacturing of US-developed mRNA vaccines, likening the new capability as a “honeypot” which will have benefits beyond Covid-19 and...
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CSIRO is seeking to expand its quantum research capability to ensure Australia remains at the forefront in the development of this new technology. Last May, CSIRO announced it would...