The CSIRO’s involvement with the government’s drug testing of welfare recipients is still up in the air as new documents reveal the organisation has still not signed a contract...
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Sydney is ratcheting up its efforts to become a significant player in the nascent quantum economy. The University of Sydney and UNSW both have major quantum computing research initiatives...
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The University of New South Wales is about to snap its tech commercialisation partnership with China into high gear which could see its Sino deal flow hit the ‘billions’...
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Sandy Plunkett has had several careers in the tech industry. I first met her in the very early 1990s when she was a reporter covering the technology beat for...
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Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...
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When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015 arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative...
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University of New South Wales president and vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs will deliver a keynote address at InnovationAus.com’s China Money, China Markets forum in Sydney on July 20. Prof Jacobs...
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When we sat down two and a half years ago with a reporter we were hoping to hire and revealed a plan to launch a publication focused on public...
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Mark Toohey’s startup is a joke – literally. Called TBSx3, the startup is developing a blockchain-based system intended to stall counterfeiters. The joke is in the company name, which...
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The Coalition government has tweaked its skilled visa program in the wake of widespread criticism after a major revamp of the 457 visa program back in April, but the...
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When 500 Startups founder Dave McClure visited Melbourne last month as a guest of the Victorian government he had already been stood down from the “day-to-day operations” of the...
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Martin O’Malley is a former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of the US state of Maryland. He was also a candidate in the 2016 presidential nomination race for the...
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The Federal Government has handed out nearly $29 million to a range of business-research collaborations as part of its Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) program in the Commonwealth’s ongoing...
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The federal government has formed a taskforce to wrangle its response to the Productivity Commission’s report on data use which will investigate privacy settings and whether we are getting...