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Govt’s ‘AI Action Plan’ is lacking action

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...

Federal space funding ascends by $65 million

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...

NT’s $50 billion Indigenous renewable energy partnership

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...

Health and medical research grants worth $33m unveiled

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...

Tech sector regulation is becoming a tangled web

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...

CDR benefits will be worth the five-year wait: Hume

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...

A blueprint for a national industrial strategy

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...

Cathy Foley embarks on Quantum mission for Australia

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...