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SQC to buy more silicon from Silex Systems

Local laser enrichment firm Silex Systems has secured a commitment from Silicon Quantum Computing to buy more of the key inputs necessary for silicon-based quantum computing. The ASX-listed company...

A leadership gap opens up in tech and innovation

You don’t need to be Nostradamus to see that 2024 is shaping as a difficult and defining year for industrial policy. There are challenges everywhere you look. Actually, that’s...

Lockheed Martin had inside track for $1.2bn satellite deal

Lockheed Martin Australia was handed a $1.2 billion satellite project by the government despite having a more expensive bid and lacking the experience of its only rival supplier, according...

Privacy watchdog pushes back on cyber enforcement restraints

Proposed legal protections for businesses that share information with the government cyber responders during an attack should not stand in the way of future enforcement action by regulators, according...

Sophisticated investor overhaul: Angels sound the alarm

Angel investors and venture capital firms are warning that proposed changes that will make it harder to qualify as a “sophisticated” investor will reduce funding for early-stage startups at...

Govt has lost sight of Australia’s AI opportunity

There aren’t many one-year-olds that can punch out a poem and write an essay in three seconds flat. In fact, ChatGPT has accomplished a lot in its first year...

Industry R&D investment expectations fall to decade low

Most industrial businesses have no plans to lift their spending on R&D this year despite reporting a positive investment outlook, according to an annual survey of industry leaders in...

Tech Council chief Kate Pounder steps down

Tech Council chief executive Kate Pounder will step down from her role at the end of next week, marking the end of a chapter for the peak industry body...

Australia 2024: Before renewal, there must be a reckoning

This time next year, will we define 2024 as a year of renewal or reckoning for Australian industry and innovation policy, action, and output? The federal government, entering the...

Energy and skills top industry list of concerns: Sussan Ley

Energy price uncertainty and skills shortages top the list of concerns for Australian industry, according to deputy Opposition leader and shadow Industry minister Sussan Ley. She says local industry had...

ARC research funding reform needs work, universities warn

A bid to stamp out political interference in the allocation of $800 million worth of annual government research funding has been widely welcomed by universities, but they warn the...