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NSW gets serious about the circular economy metrics

NSW local councils will actively track their waste and re-use metrics under a NSW state government initiative announced on Monday. Two new dashboard tools, created by the government-funded body...

Oh what a night: Awards 2021 photo gallery

If a picture tells a thousand words, then there was plenty going on at the inaugural InnovationAus Awards for Excellence 2021 on December 1. It was wonderful to have...

CSIRO brings the lunar surface to Brisbane for research

Researchers and businesses preparing to head to the Moon can test their technologies in a new facility established by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO. The purpose-built facility in Brisbane...

Perrottet sharpens NSW focus on research translation

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet is preparing a restructure to give better and more targeted support for industry growth in priority areas, including advanced manufacturing, entrepreneur driven research translation. Mr Perrottet used the...

On cybersecurity, compliance, and total cost of ownership

High levels of regulatory compliance, crippling skills shortages and a relentlessly shifting risk landscape are combining to make military-grade cloud, including physical infrastructure, increasingly attractive to commercial and government...

Indigenous knowledge systems in the age of AI

There are inherent biases built into a lot of modern technologies that preference the old colonial powers and Anglo-European whiteness as a matter of careless invention. As we stand...

Awards 2021: Perth startup Nuheara takes the Wildcard

Perth-based startup Nuheara has taken out the inaugural Wildcard award at the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence overnight. From tech to support self-driving vehicles, to quantum computing, to wearables,...

METS award won by vision systems firm Presien

Artificial intelligence-powered vision systems company Presien has won the mining equipment, technology and services category at the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence. The InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence were...

Michael Biercuk and Sam Elsom are our Australian Heroes

There was a surprise result for the top award of the night at the first annual InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence on Wednesday, with two finalists named as co-winners...

Tasmanian EcoTech warriors Sea Forest are the People’s Choice

Eco-warriors Sea Forest Limited have taken out this year’s People’s Choice category at the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence. These Aussie innovators were selected via public vote for their...