Eighty projects across 25 lead agencies have been given $650 million in federal funding over four years through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). The project funding is...
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Australia has long been a nation of innovators and early adopters. We’re quick to create or embrace new approaches that can help us to compete in business, improve social...
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Digital health businesses still face systemic barriers to scale despite being the fastest growing part of the sector, according to startup and scaleup accelerator ANDHealth. ANDHealth chief executive Bronwyn...
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It may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but the use of Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to effectively air condition city parks is now a...
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Mike Pezzullo is still receiving his near $1 million salary despite being stood down as secretary to the Department of Home Affairs over concerns about his relationship with a...
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Home Affairs and Cybersecurity minister Clare O’Neil met with representatives from her former employer McKinsey & Co 22 times this year as it helped develop Australia’s upcoming cyber strategy....
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The South Australian government has named energy infrastructure firm ATCO and gas firm BOC as the preferred partners to deliver the core of its $593 million hydrogen jobs plan....
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Using cutting-edge technology and Australia’s best researchers, V2food has created what it has dubbed Version 2 of meat. The Australian company spun out of CSIRO now supplies its meat-free,...
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The development of Australia’s innovation capability is connected to the pressing need for environmental sustainability due to global warming, and rising security concerns stemming from reliance on supply chains...
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Sydney-based job management software firm Factory.app has closed a $1.05 million seed funding round to support its ambition of improving the efficiency of small to medium-sized fabricator businesses. The firm...
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Research commercialisation remains a crucial pathway for the CSIRO to deliver for the Australian community, says newly appointed chief executive Doug Hilton, but it is not the only way...
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The world will decarbonise, fast or slow, hell or high water. The hard part of the transition is more difficult than any deliberate undertaking ever previously contemplated. The very...
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The Senate’s inquiry into the Department of Defence’s support for the local industry will hone in on procurement, ‘sovereign capability’, and innovation after finding Australian suppliers are being “poorly...
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When Michael Loewy and Yuval Hertzog landed a major client for their marketing platform Ziva, they quickly realised they had a problem. They had been recruited to run a...