Melbourne-based autonomous subsea drone developer C2 Robotics has landed a further $6 million contract from Defence to take its Speartooth vessel into rigorous real-world testing and progress tooling work...
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A $40 million grants program designed to build resilience into the local critical minerals supply chain and reduce Australia’s reliance on China has been launched by the Albanese government....
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The success of Gabriele Masili’s team in growing a US veteran health portal from 30,000 to 1 million users poses a stark question for public servants: Are we genuinely...
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The Albanese government is being urged to conduct a wholesale review of the country’s “overly bureaucratised and inefficient” R&D system and create a 10-year roadmap focused on arresting falling...
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Independent senator David Pocock has appealed to local tech companies to have their say on government procurement policy by making a submission to a Senate committee looking at developing...
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Australia’s green energy superpower ambitions need a massive innovation and investment scheme to match, and will only be fully realised with a $100 billion a year carbon levy, according...
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Five government backed accelerators will run in Queensland to get almost 170 startups in areas like health, agriculture and climate to an investment ready stage as the Miles government...
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Technical staffing constraints that led the latest tranche of the federal government’s Medicare payments system upgrade to report a ‘red’ status all of last year are on track to...
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Industry and Science minister Ed Husic says the federal government remains open to providing additional support for the development of sovereign AI capabilities, but that overseas examples suggest much...
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The Queensland government has responded to overwhelming demand for its inaugural venture capital fund by adding another $55 million. The top up to the now $130 million fund comes...
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It is a well-known fact that productivity growth has slowed in recent decades despite the continual increase in R&D as a share of GDP. Much ink has been spent...
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The geocoded national address file – known as the G-NAF – is little-known in the mainstream community but nonetheless a critical national data asset that enables services ranging from...
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More than $51 million has been committed to industry-led innovation projects under the 15th round of the federal cooperative research centres projects program. The government has committed 21 grants...
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Options and thresholds for regulating artificial intelligence in Australia will be developed over the next five months by renowned artificial intelligence expert Toby Walsh, the CSIRO’s chief scientist Bronwyn...