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Photos: Arrival Drinks, 2023 InnovationAus Awards

Photography for InnovationAus.com by Phil Carrick and Belinda Pratten More InnovationAus Awards 2023 galleries: Night of Nights; Dignitaries, Finalists & 2023 InnovationAus Awards Partners; Welcome Speeches; Winners; Dancing

Photos: Dancing, 2023 InnovationAus Awards

Photography for InnovationAus.com by Phil Carrick and Belinda Pratten More InnovationAus Awards 2023 galleries: Night of Nights; Arrival Drinks; Dignitaries, Finalists & 2023 InnovationAus Awards Partners; Welcome Speeches; Winners

Bridging the funding gap between industry and Defence

The Valley of Death is real. As any Deep Tech or advanced manufacturing entrepreneur knows, there is a chasm between innovation and commercialisation that must be fully funded or...

NSW govt set to restore first innovation grants

Six months after turning off the tap to the startup community, the New South Wales government is set to restore the innovation grants program known as MVP Ventures, but...

Flinders signs research deal with US Navy subs specialists

Flinders University has inked a collaborative research agreement with a US Navy research centre specialising in submarine warfare. The institutions will team on research projects related to undersea technology...

Multi-billion dollar Sun Cable facility planned for Tasmania

Sun Cable plans to build the Southern Hemisphere’s first advanced subsea cable manufacturing facility in Tasmania, which the state government expects will inject more than $1 billion into the...

NSW govt tweaks procurement rules ahead of bigger changes

The New South Wales government has raised the threshold for agencies to procure directly from smaller businesses as it seeks more fundamental changes to the current devolved procurement model...

$3.6m awarded to defence industry SMEs

The latest $3.6 million round of defence industry grants has been split between 10 local firms, with South Australia-based firms receiving the largest collective amount. The largest individual grant...

Plasma power: Our renewable advantage

Australia is truly the lucky country when it comes to endowments of renewable energy resources. We have more sunlit, windswept land than virtually any other country. And now that...

New Act urgently needed to fix APS digital recordkeeping

Record keeping professionals say the over-retention of digital records in the Australian Public Service is ‘frightening’ and have called for urgent legal reforms that would bolster the National Archives...

The Commercial Disco with Eyes of AI founder and CEO Khoa Le

With world-renowned research capability, Australia is well-placed to be a breeding ground for productive deep tech startups. But long-running commercialisation struggles and a shortage of skills in highly specific...

Australia joins US-led push for military AI norms

Australia has joined a global push for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in military operations, signing a declaration with 30 other countries that commits it to applying AI...