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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...

Countdown: Gilmour Space gears up for maiden launch

Activity at the Bowen Orbital Spaceport has ramped up in the new year, with final construction and assembly of launch site infrastructure underway ahead of the maiden launch of...

EV battery manufacturing opportunities focus of new inquiry

Battery manufacturing opportunities in Australia will be a focus of a new parliamentary inquiry into the transition to electric vehicles. The House Standing Committee on Climate Change, Energy, Environment,...

Former Qld Premier, Treasurer met with PsiQuantum

US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum met with former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in the same month that a secret quantum computing EoI was issued by the federal government last...

Two hydrogen hubs secure $147m in funding

More than two years after the first round of the hydrogen hubs program opened under the former Coalition government, the last $147 million in grant funding has been committed...

Ransomware reporting: The long road to change

Australian businesses will continue making ransomware payments while it makes business sense, but the government’s move to force disclosure of the payments will eventually help arrest the current growth...

SA to trial locally-made Google laptops in schools

Chromebook laptops will be assembled in Australia for the first time under a new deal between Google and Adelaide-based gaming PC manufacturer Allied Corporation to supply the computers to...