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Victoria gets a new Industry and Innovation minister

Victoria has a new Industry and Innovation minister in Ben Carroll, a lawyer and one-time staffer to former Labor senator and federal minister for broadband, communications and the digital...

Delayed myGov app launches sans Medicare card

The federal government’s long-promised myGov app has finally launched, complete with a new digital wallet offering users the ability to prove their identity with a service provider using a...

$280m mRNA vaccine research hub set up in Qld

A $280 million mRNA vaccine research hub has been jointly set up by French biomedical company Sanofi, the Queensland state government, Griffith University, and the University of Queensland. The...

Husic pump-primes the NRF to get money flowing

With the National Reconstruction Fund legislation now before Parliament, and a consultation process opened with the publication of a discussion paper, Industry minister Ed Husic’s focus is on getting...

Sydney BioTech upgrades facility for commercialisation push

Biotech Inventia Life Sciences plans to build an advanced manufacturing facility in Sydney after receiving a multimillion-dollar support package from the state government that includes tax, training and infrastructure...

Watch this space: Sector waits on new govt policies

The Australian government has agreed to only a handful of the 38 space industry development recommendations it received a year ago, resisting calls to provide more specific funding to...

Govt mulls widening of Big Tech news code

A review of Australia’s media bargaining code has recommended the government investigate extending it to digital platforms other than Google and Facebook, and verify the value of the deals it...

Cybernetics and the future of policy: ANU school launches

After nearly two years, Professor Genevieve Bell has officially opened the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics, which she hopes will encourage systems-based approaches to policy making. After an...

Lobby-linked govt tech contracts probe widens

Former minister Stuart Robert put “pressure” on public servants on Thursday morning over his involvement in an emerging lobbying scandal, Government Services minister Bill Shorten has alleged. The allegation,...

Economic Accelerator bill returns to Parliament

Education minister Jason Clare has re-introduced legislation drafted by the former government to advance Australia’s Economic Accelerator, which will bring about more grants for commercialisation and industry-led postgraduate research....

ACCC flags challenge to Cochlear buy on innovation grounds

The competition regulator is warning Coclear’s plan to buy its closest competitor will lessen competition and innovation in “the already highly concentrated” hearing device market. The scrutiny comes as...

Privacy watchdog opens investigation into Medibank breach

Australia’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into the Medibank data breach that compromised the personal details of 9.7 million customers, on the same day the would-be hackers posted...