Australian space industry leaders have hailed the Commonwealth’s “historic” creation of a national space agency, saying it will lead to thousands of local jobs and help coordinate the growing...
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Geographically they may live worlds apart – one resides on the Gold Coast and the other in Singapore. But it doesn’t bother the brothers James and Adam Gilmour, who...
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Australia will finally get a national space agency to coordinate local efforts in the sector and gain a chunk of the $400 billion global industry, the federal government has...
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Australians cannot just rely on government to set policies and frameworks if the country wants to be prepared for the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation...
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ASIC Commissioner John Price has read the riot act, albeit civilly, to both companies and insurers over the need for boards of the former to get their cyber resilience...
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Travelling in air-tight pods at 1,000 kilometres per hour is something most would imagine happening only in sci-fi films. But with Hyperloop – an Elon Musk-led vision to develop...
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The innovation debate in Australia is too focused on startups and tech companies, and needs to be more inclusive of the broader SME sector, according to CSIRO chief executive...
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Just hours after unveiling a strategic review of the Australian Government’s digital economy policies, Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos has announced he will take leave of absence from the Parliament...
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Australia will “miss the innovation opportunity” if it doesn’t address a number of key imperatives in the space, Innovation and Science Australia chairman Bill Ferris said. Speaking at the...
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Despite its superpower status as a producer and exporter of agricultural goods and services, up until now Australia has had only one accelerator program – SproutX – that has...
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He may be the shadow minister for the digital economy, but Labor MP Ed Husic has pulled the plug on using Twitter. Mr Husic has been one of the...
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The data breach at the consumer credit reporting agency Equifax a week ago was shocking not just for its scale – 143 million personal records were snatched – but...
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Competition between states to host the proposed Australian space agency is heating up, with a number of governments already putting their cases forward to the Commonwealth for consideration. The...
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The Commonwealth should fund more trials of autonomous vehicles in Australia to address security and privacy concerns in order to hasten public acceptance of the new technology, a government...