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Tech safety that includes removal of harmful systems

Innovation is about taking risks, but we waste a lot of time taking unnecessary risks with known failure modes and then acting surprised when the inevitable happens. Failures that...

Traceability is vital for carbon-free energy transformation

How governments, companies and communities procure and consume clean energy has the potential to transform and decarbonise Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM) electricity grid. In the future, net zero...

Towards a connected national innovation ecosystem

Many capital-intensive industries are facing unprecedented challenges with increasing costs due to supply chain constraints, labour shortages, and ensuring infrastructure resilience in a time of increasing natural disasters and...

Ministers must continue to meet on data and digital

The Australian Information Industry Association has called on the Albanese Government to prioritise inter-government between data and digital ministers in whatever formal structure replaces the Morrison era National Cabinet....

ATSE warns against reliance on green hydrogen and CCS

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering says the federal government must not rely on green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage technology to meet its national emissions...

Rules as code: Regulatory infrastructure for a digital age

Is Australia’s current regulatory infrastructure capable of supporting a leading digital economy by 2030 or responding to rapid technological, social and economic change? Are Australia’s overwhelmingly analogue regulations fit...

Turning to science to build new commercial enterprises

It’s an uncomfortable truth in Australia that it took a pandemic for us to turn to science for solutions, after decades of comfortable economic growth on the back of...

Measuring Australia’s return on innovation

If we review the funding policies for entrepreneurship in Australia over the last 30 years, it is apparent that the focus has been primarily on research, startups, incubators and...

Embrace workplace diversity to build a stronger economy

With the latest Census data showing Australia to be more culturally diverse than ever, leaders in the public and private sectors now face one of the nation’s most significant...

Q-CTRL opens new front with quantum sensing division

Sydney-based quantum startup Q-CTRL has officially launched its new quantum sensing division, which it says has already grown to become one of the largest in the world. Showcasing its...

Fostering cultural change in research-industry relationships

Universities are institutions where new ideas, independent and cutting-edge research thrive. The culture of universities is to push boundaries, stress test ideas and think outside the box.  But increasingly,...