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Defence awards $17m in sovereign manufacturing grants

Australian defence manufacturers have received $17.3 million in grants through the latest round of the Defence Industry Development Grants Program to build sovereign industrial capabilities. The grants will help...

The Gig Guide: Home Affairs reshuffles top ranks

A sweeping leadership shake-up at the Department of Home Affairs has reshaped its top executive team, cementing a stronger focus on national security, digital infrastructure and multicultural affairs. The...

Tech giants step up opposition to digital competition regime

Big Tech giants have ratcheted up opposition to Australia’s proposed digital competition regime under the cover of the Albanese government’s productivity push, arguing the new rules will hurt business...

Scientists demand R&D levies on big business

Large businesses would pay multi-million dollar levies every year to fund basic research in Australia under a radical proposal being put forward by scientists as a response to plummeting...

News Wrap: Silicon Valley gets its way in US AI plan

There are three names attached to the Trump administration’s newly published AI Action Plan. One is the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the other two are Silicon...

APS pilot brings local OpenAI instance to Canberra

Federal agencies will gain access to an Australian instance of OpenAI’s GPT-4o as part of a whole-of-government AI service being trialed to accelerate the adoption of AI across the...

Awards 2025: The search for our outstanding leaders begins

The search has begun for Australia’s outstanding leaders from within our community of entrepreneurs and innovators. Nominations have opened for the individual leadership categories of the 2025 InnovationAus Awards...

NRF injects $150m into Brandon Capital life sciences fund

The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has invested $150 million in life sciences venture capital firm Brandon Capital, in a major push to keep Australia’s medical breakthroughs from heading offshore...

US quantum giant taps Sydney spinout for computing race

Australian scientists will co-develop electronics and materials in Sydney for a global quantum giant that is racing to build the world’s most powerful quantum computer by the end of the...

Frontier tech fuels SA’s export ambition

South Australia has made frontier technology like artificial intelligence and quantum sensing a key plank in its new trade and investment strategy aimed at increasing state exports into emerging...

NZ introduces new laws to govern space infrastructure

The New Zealand government passed legislation on Wednesday to regulate the use of ground-based space infrastructure following concerns about foreign actors using it to harm national security. Space minister...

Billion-dollar deal takes UQ’s vaccine tech global

A UK company developing technology spun out of the University of Queensland is poised for growth after being acquired by biopharmaceutical giant Sanofi for up to $1.6 billion. In...