The CSIRO will develop a world-first ground to space water quality monitoring system with dozens of government, industry and research collaborators under its next science mission. The mission –...
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Ernst & Young will be paid another $7.2 million over the next three months to ramp up work on the federal government’s enterprise resource planning system less than three...
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Controversial global consulting giant McKinsey will have a key role in the development of Australia’s cybersecurity strategy, 18 months after the government was widely criticised for using the company...
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Removing the paywalls on research literature would boost Australian innovation, according to the Productivity Commission, which is recommending the Albanese government give consideration to the world-first open access model...
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The Department of Defence is withholding a review of Australia’s defence innovation system that cost $2.2 million from the Albanese government and the general public, despite its findings being...
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NSW Labor will investigate an interim digital voting solution to allow blind and low vision Australians to cast a verifiable ballot in state and local government elections before 2027...
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The Greens are leading a push to allow workers to ignore emails, calls and texts outside of working hours, introducing legislation that would see Australia join France and other...
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A former American naval chief-turned-venture capitalist says momentum is building for the US to relax defence technology export controls that present an obstacle to not only the AUKUS security...
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High ranking officials from America’s space program have called for deeper ties with Australia, including Australian astronauts flying on United States’ missions, during a rare visit this week that...
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb has decried Big Tech’s conduct as anti-competitive, a handbrake on innovation and harmful to consumers, after the regulator spent six years...
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For policy makers, designers, educators, community and industry leaders, tech professionals and a diverse range of stakeholders, the Data Informed Design Conference (DiD23) is the place to be. That’s...
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The Productivity Commission has cast doubt on the effectiveness of greater ‘sovereign capability’ in boosting productivity and has advocated for increased liberalisation of trade to boost innovation diffusion. A...
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The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...
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There is no doubt the world has entered a more complex and potentially dangerous era. And according to Sarah Pavillard, that means commercial researchers and tech innovators will increasingly...