We have all seen the headlines – Australia is one of the lowest R&D-funded OECD countries, coming in below 1.6 per cent of GDP and falling, more than a...
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AustCyber, the former government-funded cybersecurity Industry Growth Centre, has shed its ties with startup incubator Stone and Chalk and been reborn as the Australian Cyber Network. Launched on Wednesday,...
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New laws to keep the NBN publicly owned will be introduced to federal Parliament, preventing any future sell-off of the network that delivers high-speed broadband to 8.5 million households....
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Astrophysicist Matthew Bailes has taken out Australia’s top science prize for his part in the discovery of fast radio bursts – millisecond-duration radio flashes that can be used to...
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Sydney quantum startup Q-CTRL on Tuesday added an all equity $87 million raise to its multi-year Series B, taking the round past $166 million and bucking fears of a...
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Defence has postponed the cutover to its multi-billion dollar new enterprise resources planning system, further dragging out the mammoth SAP build amid the department’s latest push to eradicate legacy...
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Nearly a third of all Australian houses have rooftop solar panels. That’s more than 3.6 million houses which are utilising the renewable energy source, and this figure is expected...
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I attended school and university under the old social contract; do your best at school, complete your homework, study for exams, get a good final score, go to university,...
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AIM Defence has delivered two more of its high-powered counter-drone laser systems to Defence, bringing its work with the department to more than $10 million over the past year....
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The Education department is investigating a complaint about the procurement of highly paid advisers for its $1.6 billion research commercialisation push. The ongoing inquiry has delayed the tender by...
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In a recent interview, the outwardly mild-mannered former Google chief executive and chairman Eric Schmidt made some bold statements. He revealed that ‘his friends” at the forefront of artificial...
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For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when...
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The corporate regulator did not adequately review the impact of its recommended increase to the wholesale investor threshold, conceding on Friday that it had relied on its own judgement...
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Change must start at the top, with upskilling of Australian executives and leaders. As consumers, Australians are world-leading in adopting new technologies. But our businesses, and their corporate boards,...