Labor has successfully launched a Senate inquiry into Australia’s domestic advanced manufacturing capability, as support for the sector and sovereign capability shape up to be a key election issue....
Science
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Australians overwhelmingly trust scientists and want science to drive policy-making, according to a new report commissioned by the peak industry body, Science and Technology Australia. The 3M State of...
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If the emergence of wealth-creation engines like Atlassian, Canva and Afterpay had not already signalled a new centre of economic power in this country, then the launch of the...
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Former Australian and state chief scientists have warned the post-pandemic recovery risks being squandered because of a lack of leadership, and called for a bolder and more coherent approach...
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Women entrepreneurs lack social capital and it’s holding back their ventures, according to growth expert at the Australian Centre for Business Growth Sarah Curtis-Fawley, who has just completed her...
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We all know that Australia lags on any measure of collaboration between science and industry, but changes are underway in the defence field. Defence science as we know it...
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A new quantum focused startup hub will be established at Sydney’s Tech Central, with the New South Wales government on the hunt for founding members. Known as The Quantum Terminal,...
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The Victorian government has made a number of submissions to the federal government’s approach to market for a local mRNA vaccine manufacturing capability, with several other states also vying...
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Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...
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Twenty-eight innovation ecosystem leaders from across Australia have been appointed as the independent judging crew for the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, representing a cross section of skills,...
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This is a call-out to Australia’s entrepreneurs and innovators, to our researchers and commercialisation heroes: The deadline for entries to the inaugural InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence looms large....
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An Australian healthcare joint-venture between artificial intelligence startup Harrison.ai and local radiology company I–MED Radiology Network has launched a chest X-ray diagnostic tool on the same day a peer-reviewed...
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On Thursday of this week Australia’s open banking community will celebrate the first birthday of the ground-breaking Consumer Data Right (CDR), which has started in banking sector before moving...
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Australia must make a strategic decision to back its science and technology capabilities by nearly doubling total R&D investment, developing national strategies for emerging areas, and addressing an “alarming...