The federal government outsourced more than $5 million of technology work to manage its international travel exemptions for one year, including large IT contracts where only a single provider...
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Adelaide-based Southern Launch will no longer use the Hapith I rocket for any further space launches after it caught fire last week in a third failed attempt to put...
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The federal government intends to standardise intellectual property rights contracts between universities and businesses under a mandatory scheme for all federally funded research projects that engage in commercialisation. The...
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The Victorian government is on the hunt for a private operator to run a $10 million digital hub in Cremorne, which it aims to be the “driving force behind...
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Up until recently when people talked about ‘digital twins’ and spatial services, it has been in reference to architectural drawings, building layouts and the construction industry. But this is...
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Four Australian space companies have shared in $3 million in federal government grants as part of the Moon to Mars initiative. As part of the Supply Chain Capability Improvement...
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The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has unveiled the first stage of a $48 million public research supercomputer billed as the fastest in the Southern Hemisphere. Early adopter...
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Brisbane battery casing design company Vaulta was founded in response to the looming environmental disaster of batteries from electric vehicles. Currently they mostly go to landfill, a massive waste...
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Column: ACCC chief Rod Sims has kicked off a debate on merger law reform in Australia. How valid is the claim he mentioned by the International Monetary Fund that...
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Quantum computing risks becoming the latest in a long line of stories where Australian smarts make early breakthroughs in an emerging technology, only to see the commercial returns and...
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Political reporter and Ms Represented creator Annabel Crabb will join business and public sector luminaries Lucy Turnbull, Wendy McCarthy and Amy Brown on Thursday September 23 for a special...
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The Victorian government is set to significantly broaden its cybersecurity priorities to “proactively” assist businesses and individuals to protect themselves and embark on a large-scale uplift program as part...
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The federal government will pay US multinational Adobe more than $30 million to provide “core technology components” to underpin the new version of myGov, with total contracts for the...
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Australia risks becoming a laggard among the world’s top technologically driven nations without a stronger investment in digital technology-based research, innovation and workers. That’s according to a new “policy...