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First director faces court over ATO ID scheme breach

Australia’s corporate watchdog has launched first-of-its-kind legal action against an unnamed company director for allegedly failing to sign up to the federal government’s compulsory director ID program. The director,...

CSIRO scanning tech supporting ISS research

CSIRO-designed 3D mapping technology has been sent to the International Space Station, where it will be fitted to its onboard robot assistant. The multi-resolution scanning technology will be used...

New chief takes up FinTech’s funding fight

As investment in Australia’s FinTechs dries up, the sector’s peak group is juggling new ways to support its next generation to ride emerging areas like AI and sustainable finance...

Countdown: Gilmour quietly steps toward the vertical

Gilmour Space Technologies expects to lift its Eris rocket to its vertical position on the launchpad for the first time in the next ten days as the company quietly...

Big Tech and the intelligence power shift since MH17

Investigating MH17 unlocked the role of big data in assembling a criminal brief, pioneering the use of open-source intelligence.   “I became interested in how big data was being used...

Gig Guide: Elaine Stead joins Main Sequence

Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Elaine Stead has joined CSIRO-seeded Main Sequence Ventures’ investment team, concluding her time leading Human Venture Capital. Ms Stead has 20 years’ experience working across...

Tritium faces Nasdaq delisting as shares slide further

Embattled EV charging station maker Tritium will try and appeal a second delisting notice from the Nasdaq it received just hours before its vote on a share consolidation plan...

Govt becomes broker for defence industry

The Australian government is set to broker the sale of sovereign defence capabilities to other nations on behalf of local firms under a new program designed to boost export...

WA opens $22m green innovation grants round

More than $20 million in grants for green technology projects with “high public value” are up for grabs in Western Australia under the latest round of the state government’s Clean...

PwC’s global boss defies Senate request

PwC’s global boss has defied the Senate’s request to provide a report on the involvement of its overseas partners in the tax leaks scandal that ended the Australian firm’s...

New STA chief moves from ACOLA

Industry and research representative group Science and Technology Australia has found its new chief executive in Ryan Winn, the current head of the Australian College of Learned Academies. Announced...

Govt research vetoes stamped out

Education ministers will no longer be able to unilaterally veto research grants after Greens and independent senators on Thursday helped pass a government bill that transfers final say on...