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Local tech giants resisting redundancy wave

Some of Australia’s biggest local tech firms, including Canva, TechnologyOne and SafetyCulture, are eyeing expansion amid the wave of job cuts sweeping through the sector following higher interest rates...

Qld battery industry a $1.3bn opportunity by 2030

Queensland’s battery industry could be worth $1.3 billion to the state’s economy in less than a decade, according to a new discussion paper commissioned to inform Queensland’s first Battery...

Govt mulls facial recognition bill reheat

As the government considers reviving the controversial facial recognition legislation needed to expand an identity matching scheme, Home Affairs has awarded a $37 million contract to Fujitsu to manage...

CRC scheme backed by buried report

The Hawke-era Cooperative Research Centres program has delivered big returns on government investment for three decades and should be continued with increased funding, according to a review of the...

NSW govt readies RNA R&D fund

The New South Wales government is searching for investment partners to help it establish an RNA fund that will provide millions to drug and vaccine research and development in...

Robots to aid Australia’s Antarctic research efforts

Drones and autonomous vehicles will soon be deployed to Antarctica to aid the Australian Antarctic Program’s study of whales and geophysics, allowing for the collection of data otherwise inaccessible...

NSW contractor spend doubles to $1.2bn in pandemic

Spending on contractors at New South Wales’ biggest government agencies has doubled since the start of the pandemic, climbing from just over $600 million to more than $1.2 billion...

Cyber threat platform costing govt $59k a day

The bill for the federal government’s automated cyber threat sharing platform has skyrocketed to more than $59,000 a day because of the expansion into bidirectional sharing, increased industry participation,...

$35bn solar power export venture Sun Cable collapses

Sun Cable, the company developing one of the world’s biggest solar and battery projects, has abruptly entered voluntary administration, casting doubt on the future of the $35 billion proposal....