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Rare earths should be included in AUKUS: Kim Beazley

Former Defence minister Kim Beazley has called for critical minerals to be included as “another leg” of the AUKUS agreement to break the dependence of Western democracies on China,...

InnovationAus 2022 Awards: Creative Tech finalists

Australia is a naturally creative country. Creative technology provides an opportunity to combine this natural creativity with cutting-edge technology to create efficient, productive and fun solutions and services across...

EpiWatch, the AI-driven early warning system for epidemics

The event that inspired the development of EpiWatch, an AI-driven early warning detection system for epidemics, was the West African ebola outbreak of 2014, according to UNSW professor of...

Govt to consider making ransomware payments illegal

The federal government will consider making it illegal to pay the ransom demands of cyber criminals as part of its review of the 2020 national cybersecurity strategy. Home Affairs...

InnovationAus Awards: Cybersecurity finalists

Cybersecurity has been thrust into the spotlight in Australia in recent months. The Optus and Medibank hacks among others have demonstrated the devastating impact a data breach can have....

Gig Guide: End of service for Damon Rees

Service NSW chief executive Damon Rees will “hand the baton to the next steward” at the end of this year to establish business consulting firm Better As Usual. Mr...

Why it’s time for a national industry strategy

For most of my time as economist, we have avoided or danced around discussion of industry policy in Australia, adopting a common narrative about not wanting or being able...

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...