If it wasn’t already obvious, this week’s report into Australia’s scuttled business registers transformation has left no room for misinterpretation. The case for large-scale technology projects in government no...
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The ‘hamster wheel’ of the Australian Stock Exchange weighed heavily on one of Australia’s most promising cyber firms, which has opted to return to private investors through French contracting...
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Solar PV and thermal storage firm RayGen has been awarded $10 million to improve technology design, lower production costs, and undertake studies in support of a project being deployed...
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The Albanese government will not introduce a mandatory age verification regime for online pornography and other adult content, after existing technology options were found to be immature, and will...
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Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones cannot see a “big future” for fintechs and other businesses that continue to rely on screen scraping, declaring that the “world has moved on” as...
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The federal government’s upcoming data and digital strategy will be accompanied by an iterative implementation plan so the new guidance stays relevant through technological changes and can guide new...
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Malcolm Turnbull is urging the Albanese government to ramp up its support for renewable hydrogen projects amid concerns that Australia is falling behind in the global race to stand...
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Two former bureaucrats, including an ex-competition watchdog boss, will lead an independent review of Australian export control laws that will contemplate the need for greater freedoms to share technology...
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Local carbon fibre producer Quickstep has entered a new engineering collaboration with the Sovereign Manufacturing Automation for Composites Cooperative Research Centre and Deakin University’s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research...
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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...