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...
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Technology companies that are spun-out from deep-pocketed universities should not be an investment focus for the National Reconstruction Fund, according to former Victorian minister for small business, innovation and...
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Business investment in R&D has grown for the first time in almost a decade, registering a 14 per cent increase in nominal terms, while overall proportional spend has reached...
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Most of the world’s biggest online publishers are not blocking bots from crawling their content to train generative AI, with some notable exceptions including the ABC and Australia’s regional...
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The Australian Research Council has appointed Professor Gavin Reid as its executive director for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and earth sciences. Professor Reid is a bioanalytical chemist at the University...
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Imagine if you could choose to have a digital identity established with a ‘trusted digital identity provider’ — and use that to apply for a passport, mobile phone, bank...
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The CSIRO has spun out a new company to prove and commercialise its way of producing hydrogen with 30 per cent less electricity. The technology is aimed at helping...
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Australia is a long way off issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency, according to a final report on pilot projects initiated by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the...
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Australia risks an exodus of artificial intelligence capability and investment if new technology-specific regulations are introduced and the country’s existing copyright regime is tightened, the Tech Council of Australia...
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Reductions in emissions intensity should be considered a productivity measure to encourage the uptake of low-emissions technologies, according to the Albanese government’s first intergenerational report. With existing productivity measurements...
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A Brisbane biotech that makes needle free vaccine delivery patches has been tapped by a global charity to help fight typhoid, the life-threatening disease that infects millions of people...