The federal government has committed $3 billion in funding to private sector electricity transmission projects in Western Australia to support the roll-out of renewable energy programs. The concessional loans...
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The world’s biggest technology companies have dismissed concerns by Australian regulators about the potential for self-preferencing and the lack of competition, recommending that the watchdogs focus on “outcomes” rather...
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Large investments into local industry via the Albanese government’s newly interventionist approach to industry policy have not raised competition concerns, says the Assistant Minister for Treasury Andrew Leigh, who...
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The world as we know it has changed. Recent extraordinary events, from the COVID pandemic and natural disasters to supply-chain dysfunction caused by trade tensions, inflation, and war, means...
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Every dollar invested by the Australian Research Council in university research over the last two decades contributed more than $3 to the economy, according to a new evaluation of...
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Opposition services minister Paul Fletcher says the Digital Transformation Agency’s role has been diminished as part of a backwards step on government technology and digital services that will need...
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Clauses in existing legislation that let Commonwealth departmental secretaries outsource ‘decision-making authority’ to computers is like leaving a “hand grenade with the pin out”, a regulation and governance specialist...
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University of Sydney researchers are claiming a world first after using quantum technologies to observe a chemical process that occurs in a tiny fraction of a millisecond and has...
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On a day of dramatic senior leadership changes at Fortescue Metals Group, former CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Fortescue Metals...
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There would be few times in history where Australian industry faced the intensity of the challenges facing the nation today. But you would hardly know it. Despite the challenges,...
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The Albanese government has scrapped a major upgrade of the country’s business registers after an independent review found it would cost up to $2.2 billion to complete the project...
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The National Reconstruction Fund is about to deploy $15 billion into the types of deep technologies capable of safeguarding our future economy. Yet this $15 billion is just the...
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The carbon footprint of the federal government’s vast technology estate should be measured as a first step toward incentivising agencies to redirect billions in spending to energy-efficient clouds and...
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The federal government is being urged to establish a new fund to support the commercialisation of diagnostics manufacturing in Australia to reduce dependence on US and European supply chains...