Industry minister Ed Husic has defended his department’s decision to withdraw $442 million in grants announced under the former government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative, saying tough “decisions had to be...
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Parliament’s audit committee has called for sweeping changes to the rules governing the federal government’s $80 billion of annual procurements, warning the current system is opaque and some aspects...
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Former Industry minister Karen Andrews says the federal government is walking away from the domestic space industry, with program cuts that will undermine Australia’s sovereign capability and limit new...
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Former Clean Energy Finance Corporation director Martijn Wilder will chair the eight-member board of the Albanese government’s $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund. Industry and Science minister Ed Husic announced...
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Helping companies see the benefit of being commonly understood is the essence of ensuring a comparable environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice for biotechs and medtechs. This provided the...
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A government-led parliamentary committee has called for the Department of Finance to expedite the creation of a procurement profession within the Australian Public Service to address the “significant capability...
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One of the headline ideas floated by the Universities Accord interim report is a second national university. This would be on top of the existing Australian National University in...
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The peak group for universities will on Wednesday reiterate long held concerns about a “free fall” in research funding and “corrosive policy oscillation” while warning a lack of graduates...
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Industry minister Ed Husic has been accused of “economic vandalism” over the decision to scrap $442 million in grants offered under the Collaboration stream of the Modern Manufacturing Initiative...
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The federal government’s digital identity regime will mitigate a digital class divide by making robust identity proofing more accessible to all Australians, according to Government Services minister Bill Shorten....
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Almost all Australians want the government and businesses to do more to protect their privacy, while the rise of invasive technologies and several high-profile data breaches are creating growing...
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Stuart Robert met with the tech multinational that would go on to win a lucrative government contract on four occasions during the procurement process, without public servants or probity advisers...
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Almost half the grants offered under the largest stream of the former Morrison government’s flagship manufacturing grants program have been withdrawn by the federal Industry department. In a $440...
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Locating the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) within the Defence establishment would give the newly created organisation the best chance of delivering not only accelerated “speed to capability”, but...