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Gig guide: CSIRO appoints inaugural deputy chief exec

CSIRO has appointed Kirsten Rose as its inaugural deputy chief executive, around six months since her short stint as acting chief executive. Ms Rose has more than 25 years of senior...

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$22m global green industry program opens

A new $22 million grant program for Australian and Austrian companies developing technologies that decarbonise hard-to-abate industries has opened to applicants. The Australia –...

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$65m biotech incubator names first 16 residents

A wearable “lab-on-a-chip” solution for hormone monitoring, a gum disease vaccine and technology for creating 3D models of human brain tissue are among the ideas that have piqued...

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Defence to spend $1bn a year on ICT

Defence will nearly double its planned investments in enterprise ICT compared to 2020, expecting to spend up to $1 billion annually after changes to its digital governance. Total...

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Govt eyes future ASCA expansion

The Albanese government has opened the door to expanding the remit of Defence's Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator to other national security agencies less than a year after...

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New local players cleared for sensitive government data

Two more Australian tech companies have been cleared to carry protected-level public sector data under the federal government’s Hosting Certification Framework, as an existing...

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Scale up govt innovation procurement to $100m, tech group says

The federal government must quadruple funding to its innovation procurement program and establish a public sector accelerator to bring down the walls around government contracts for...

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‘Select sourcing’ of EY for $10.7m Digital ID register

Consulting giant EY will be paid almost $1 million a month to build the regulatory technology underpinning Australia’s expanding digital identity system, after the big four firm...

Defence earmarks $36bn for space and cyber spend

Defence will spend up to $36 billion on space, cyber, and electronic warfare capabilities over the next decade, according to the federal government’s new integrated investment program. The integrated...

$585m in govt loans for critical minerals projects

The federal government has announced a $585 million loan package for two critical minerals processing projects in Queensland and South Australia through its existing loan facility. The funding, announced...

Calls to back sustainable aviation fuel like hydrogen

Australia’s Jet Zero Council is putting pressure on the federal government to include sustainable aviation fuel subsidies in this year’s Budget on a similar scale to the $2 billion...

WA unveils draft digital acceleration strategy

The Western Australian government wants to raise the state’s digital readiness index score, one of several measurable goals outlined in a draft of its WA: Digitally Evolved – Digital...

Meta’s industry body dismisses complaint against Meta

A complaint against Meta over “potentially misleading” mis- and disinformation reporting in Australia has been dismissed by the industry group that counts the social media giant as a member....

Accenture making the case for Australia’s skills passport

The business case for a national skills “passport” is being developed by tech services giant Accenture, as the Albanese government warms to a concept proposed decades ago to inject...

CSIRO teams with UTS on AI safety standard

The country’s national science agency is moving fast to develop best practice guidance for businesses developing and deploying artificial intelligence, teaming with UTS’s Human Technology Institute and the wider...