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Business makerspaces can bridge innovation gaps

Australia has the right legacy strengths, technological capabilities and skilled population to become a global innovation leader. However, support gaps at the grassroots are holding us back from reaching...

WA minister decries board and VC boys club

Western Australia’s Minister for Women’s Interests Sue Ellery has stressed the need for cultural change to support more women in STEM, startups, and venture capital, as she shared stories...

Search begins for quantum growth centre operator

The federal government has begun accepting pitches from quantum computing companies to establish the Australian Centre for Quantum Growth, almost six months after the initiative was funded. A grant...

ACS chief executive Chris Vein set to retire

Australian Computer Society chief executive Chris Vein is set to leave the information technology professionals association at the end of this month after a year-and-a-half in the top job....

Ex-McKinsey manager named govt’s ‘chief consultant’

Private sector consultants turned public servants will lead the Albanese government’s new in-house consultancy, which was swamped with almost 1000 applications for less than 20 roles. The top job...

Home-grown AI is a key building block for our future

What were the most important achievements of the Morrison government? I asked Microsoft Bing chat. Alongside managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the AI chatbot nominated AUKUS, the trilateral security pact...

Q-CTRL teams with IBM in time for ‘quantum utility’ era

Q-CTRL’s software has been integrated into IBM’s quantum computing service, pairing the Australian startup’s technology with some of the world’s best hardware as the “era of quantum utility” approaches....

Senate committee proposes new Big Tech regulatory body

A digital platforms coordination body should be created by the federal government to address competition concerns presented by Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, a...

Gig Guide: Fresh CEO for research translation venture BioCurate

The new chief executive of the University of Melbourne and Monash University’s research translation joint venture BioCurate is Dr Kathy Nielsen, who moves from her role leading Monash’s commercialisation...

The Australians building biological data centre tech

“In our lab in Melbourne, we’re building the world’s first neural data centre,” explains Hon Weng Chong, whose fusion of biological computing with traditional tech has caught Amazon’s eye...

Fostering talent that is hiding in plain sight

The Australian Public Service in 2023 is faced with an extraordinary opportunity to reset its contribution to supporting the government of Australia and all Australians.  Four events occurring almost...