Budget funding for the federal government’s common enterprise resource planning system known as GovERP has been laid bare for the first time, as the overhaul enters its fifth year with...
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Australia’s research collaboration activity with China is in freefall, with government funding for partnerships plummeting after allegations of foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Analysis of the drop found...
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The first steps in generational reforms to the nation’s higher education sector did not include action on research funding, despite R&D investment in Australia this year continuing a long-term...
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The Western Australian government has awarded grants worth $43 million for technology advanced manufacturing projects through its Investment Attraction Fund, a part of an ambitious drive to diversify the...
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Generative AI could add $115 billion to the Australian economy annually by 2030 based on a modelling scenario of ‘fast adoption’, according to a new report prepared by the...
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One of the federal government’s biggest tech suppliers says it spurned an offer from the lobbying firm linked to former minister Stuart Robert to help it meet ministers and...
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The Albanese government will dismantle a rule forcing university students that failed half their courses to pay up front as part of its response to bold changes proposed by...
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The New South Wales government will pour nearly $7 million into three local quantum spinouts to help commercialise their hardware and software. Sydney-based firms Diraq, Q-CTRL and Quantum Brilliance...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog is still investigating Bunnings and Kmart over the use of facial recognition technology on in-store CCTV footage more than 12 months after the controversial practice was...
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A controversial nuclear waste facility planned for South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula will not go ahead in its current form after Traditional Owners won a legal challenge to stop the...
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A significant gap in access to the benefits of digital technology exists between First Nations and other Australians, with the disparity particularly pronounced in regional and remote areas, according...
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Making Australia a top 10 digital economy and society by 2030 arguably rests on the government pioneering and perfecting a national digital identity strategy that places strong emphasis on...
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The federal government has launched a $60 million grant program to support recycling technology innovation and advanced recycling techniques targeting hard-to-recycle plastics. The plastics technology stream of the Recycling...
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The Future Skills Organisation takes the reins of the Finance, Technology, and Business Jobs and Skills Council at a time when there is a need to “normalise” digital skills...