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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Consultation on Australia’s 2023 Critical Minerals Strategy has commenced, with the Albanese government now calling for comment on how to support minerals processing and METS intellectual property. The consultation...
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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...
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For a company that objects to the characterisation of its plans to leave the ASX in favour of a US listing as being a move offshore, Carbon Revolution sure...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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....
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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...
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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...