Immigration minister Peter Dutton has unveiled a pilot program for a new ‘entrepreneur visa’ that would let foreign entrepreneurs and investors with an “innovative idea and a supporting business...
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Labor has queried cabinet minister Michaelia Cash’s role as chair of the government’s Women’s Advisory Panel on Innovation in the wake of poisonous scenes at Estimates hearings last week,...
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The newly-signed Western Sydney City Deal inked between the Commonwealth, the NSW government and eight local councils includes the creation and construction of a STEM facility and the roll-out...
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Government has lost its way on the innovation policy and is now saddled with a minister who has given up on launching a new wave of policy reform, federal...
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In leading the debate about innovation policy in Australia, government must confront the reality of impending job losses and all the political complexity that comes with the issue, according...
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Australia has a “huge window of opportunity” in growing its space sector, but success is riding on the government’s commitment to a national space agency and how much funding...
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Innovation and technology, renewable energy, higher education and water management are among the industries the Queensland government says will benefit from a five-year sister state agreement it has signed...
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At local finance software and services company MYOB, workplace diversity is not only a human rights issue – it also makes good business sense, with team diversity producing ‘breakthroughs’...
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ANZ bank has hopped aboard Data Republic’s information sharing platform, joining earlier entrants Westpac and NAB as Australia’s move to an open banking regime speeds up. Data Republic scores...
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Long-time Google Australia director of engineering Alan Noble is to leave the company after more than a decade, and plans to focus on the expansion of his Adelaide-based ocean...
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It was the annual Science Meets Parliament confab in Canberra last week. Cool … If you like that sort of thing. It was also the week Australia’s Prime Minister...
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Big investment decisions don’t get made in a vacuum. They are the end-point of targeted work by powerful interests over a period of time. Very often there is an...
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South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has won a Dutch government grant to fast-track its “world-first” Internet of Things network for farms around the world, while Queensland rocket company...
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If your doctor whips out her smartphone to take a photo of your skin rash to share with a colleague, how will that image be protected, how long will...