Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said a decision on Australia’s preferred nuclear-powered submarine will not be made before the upcoming federal election, directly contradicting his Defence Minister Peter Dutton,...
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Accenture enjoyed a near-20 per cent increase in its federal government work in the last year, with the Irish-domiciled tech consultancy landing an extra $62 million in Commonwealth-procured contracts....
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It seems like only a few years ago we were still having the conversation about whether the Chief Technology Officer should sit inside the C-suite. When we look back...
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A Canberra consultancy will be paid more than $3 million in the first half of this year to help the federal Industry department assess grants across a range of...
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Australia’s chief scientist doesn’t want quantum to go the way of solar power in Australia, with relatively little return from a locally developed, globally transformative technology now present in...
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CSIRO has defended its use of global management consultants to guide a program “streamlining” organisational processes and systems around a new strategy, with the agency saying there is no...
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Legislation launching a limited patent box scheme for the MedTech and BioTech sectors has been introduced to Parliament, but the government is racing against time to pass the bill...
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Drone detection and countermeasure company DroneShield has announced the upgrading of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that supports its RF drone and autonomous systems detection devices. The Australian/US company...
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The New South Wales Government has offered to subsidise eligible technology companies’ rental costs at Tech Central by nearly $2 million each in a bid to attract scale ups...
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A combined $1.6 million of federal grants have been awarded to 17 businesses for proposals that reduce regulatory compliance costs through the latest round of the Business Research and...
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The prospect of nuclear power should be dubbed ‘The Great Distraction.’* A look at one historical text has lessons for us all in making technology predictions. Albert Einstein’s famous...
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The Industry department has opened a $13 million STEM diversity grants round while the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering has been given $41 million to run a...
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The acting education minister has vetoed six humanities research grants which had been recommended by the independent Australian Research Council for funding. The veto was revealed on Christmas eve...
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Australia’s Industry Growth Centres have been allocated an additional $19 million to transition to self-sustaining operation next year when the federal government pulls its support for the long-running initiative....