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Shorten vows to break vendor stranglehold on govt services

Services minister Bill Shorten wants a new approach to his agencies’ policy design and implementation through a more capable public service that takes fewer leads from tech vendors and...

Main Sequence bags another $450m for its third fund

Main Sequence Ventures raised $450 million for its third investment fund, bringing the venture capital firm’s total funds under management to more than $1 billion for the first time....

Sun-shifting startup LLEAF opens vast new Sydney laboratory

Sydney-based AgTech startup LLEAF on Monday opened its first solar laboratory in Sydney to expand its product offerings, capping an 18 month period that included government backing, its first...

Govt helps SQC bank $50m in slashed Series A round

Silicon Quantum Computing has raised $50 million in a Series A round that it says underscores a growing confidence in both the company and wider quantum computing sector, despite...

Google govt relations lead appointed to ACMA

Australia’s media watchdog has hired Google Australia’s government relations lead directly from the tech giant, insisting it can manage any conflicts of interests through established processes as it gears...

Kathryn Campbell resigns from $900,000 AUKUS advisor role

Kathryn Campbell has resigned from the Department of Defence just days after being suspended without pay from her almost $900,000-a-year special advisor role to the AUKUS submarine project. Defence...

Productivity Commission reforms to be led by new chair

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed a deputy secretary from the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance Chris Barrett as the new chair of the Productivity Commission. Announcing the appointment...

Space-based earth observation brings extreme fires into focus

Australia’s fire chiefs anticipate the next generation of space-based fire detection and extinction tools enabled by low-earth orbit satellites may hold the key to mitigating extreme remote wildfires. Extreme...

Rail sector gathers for national manufacturing boost

NSW Premier Chris Minns and federal Manufacturing minister Tim Ayres will bring together more than 100 representatives from the rail manufacturing supply chain in Penrith on Monday morning as...