A government-led Senate committee has called for restrictions, including mandatory regulation, on the marketing of plant-based meat products, due to the “appropriation” of meat terms and animal imagery by...
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Australia’s competition watchdog will push for a broad range of significant antitrust reforms aimed at curbing the market dominance of global Big Tech giants such as Google and Facebook....
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Funding for Australia’s ‘AI Action Plan’ remains locked up in the Industry department nearly a year after it was announced, with a key business group pressing the government to...
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Nearly 35 years after founding software firm TechnologyOne in 1987, Adrian Di Marco will step down from the company at the end of the financial year. Mr Di Marco...
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A federal windfall of more than $65 million has been dropped on the local space industry via a new Space Infrastructure Fund, with half allocated to the Australian Space...
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The Law Council of Australia has warned that proposed changes to allow the nation’s international and domestic intelligence agencies to more easily gather covert intelligence on people in Australia...
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Australia was promised a new research focus for PhDs on the needs of industry. In this article, Dr John Howard forensically examines the national innovation and research system and...
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The Australian subsidiary of UK-based Octopus Group has sealed a partnership with the Northern Territory Indigenous Business Network (NTIBN) to deliver an estimated $50 billion of investment into renewable...
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The Western Australian government has opened applications for a share of $10 million in health and medical research grants, which followed a federal announcement on Tuesday of $23 million...
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Technology is no longer the new frontier; it’s not an ungoverned or unregulated place. As COVID has demonstrated, digital technologies are now core to our economy and society, and...
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Consumers will begin to see benefits of Australia’s data portability by next year after a half-decade “build phase”, according to Minister for Financial Services and the Digital Economy Jane...
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A blueprint for a new National Industrialisation Strategy has been issued in the runup to the federal election that could guide a reindustrialisation of Australia. The blueprint, High Value Manufacturing...
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Despite the uncertainty of COVID-19 restrictions, startup festival SouthStart is going ahead with a full set of in-person events this March, under the theme of revival. SouthStart is a...
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Australia’s chief scientist doesn’t want quantum to go the way of solar power in Australia, with relatively little return from a locally developed, globally transformative technology now present in...