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Lifelong learning key to our digital health future

With a mission to connect government, consumers, academia and researchers to deliver a cooperative approach to digital health innovation, the Digital Health CRC is at the forefront of the...

$250m loan for Pilbara lithium plant

A $250 million loan from the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility and Export Finance Australia will support the expansion of a lithium mining and processing site in the Pilbara, Western...

ACCC wants another Big Tech crackdown

Australia’s competition and consumer regulator has called for sweeping changes to the regulation of digital platforms after warning for years about anti-competitive behaviour and a lack of user protections...

CSIRO, Google team for blue carbon AI project

A new research project between national science agency the CSIRO and Google will seek to better understand blue carbon ecosystems in the Indo-Pacific and Australia through the use of...

InnovationAus Awards: Translation Hero finalists

Translating Australia’s world-leading research into commercially successful companies has long been a pain point for the country. But the tides are turning, and there has never been more focus...

Dan Andrews commits $43m to battery storage in Vic

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has pledged $43 million to support the roll out of 100 new community batteries if the Labor Party is successful at the state election on...

Cyber-attacks add scale to hundreds of data breaches

Four large data breaches, including one impacting more than 1 million Australians, were reported to Australia’s privacy regulator in the first half of this year, with ransomware the leading...

Mandatory data breach notification laws enter NSW Parliament

Legislation to establish NSW’s long-promised mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities has been introduced to Parliament, bringing Australia’s first state-based reporting regime closer to reality. Attorney-General...

David Thodey on Australia’s innovation urgency and ambition

A better articulated industry policy, more cooperation between states and the Commonwealth, and a “national ambition” are urgently needed, according to David Thodey, who wants the Prime Minister to...

InnovationAus finalists: Software Innovation Award

It’s been more than a decade since Marc Andreessen famously said that software is eating the world. And he has been well and truly proved correct in the years...