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‘Value-add here’: PM wants new approach to next resources boom

More of the Australian critical and rare earth minerals underpinning the global energy transition should be processed onshore, the Prime Minister says, acknowledging a national opportunity of resource extraction...

Cost of developing battery industry not modelled by govt

The Commonwealth government has yet to produce modelling on the cost of developing a battery cell manufacturing industry in Australia, but remains committed to its election commitment to produce...

NSW unveils delayed police cyber security centre

An around-the-clock cyber security operation centre dedicated to protecting NSW Police systems and the data within them has been launched by the state government, more than nine months after...

Information supply chains and sovereign capability

In a post-COVID world, Australia is in an excellent position to innovate and commercialise its domestic capability and uplift local industry. However, urgent action and collaboration are required across...

Towards a more mature and nuanced tech narrative

On LinkedIn, Braden Wallake, the chief executive of the social media company HyperSocial, posted a photograph of himself crying. He had just fired two of his 17 employees. The...

Space sector must get down to earth: Main Sequence

Australian space companies need to be either “full stack” or have additional terrestrial applications for their products to attract the market’s shrinking venture capital, according to Main Sequence Ventures...

Gig Guide: Siemens loyalist to head ANZ office

A veteran of the German technology group Siemens Peter Halliday has been appointed as the new chair and chief executive officer of Siemens Australia from September 1. Mr Halliday...

Jobs and Skills: Don’t overlook the talent for research

The last section of the Jobs+Skills Summit Issues Paper argues, quite correctly, that maximising the opportunities from new, growing and strategically important industries will be critical to boosting productivity,...

‘Shameful’ grants record adds to manufacturing delay

A year after Australian manufacturers applied for large COVID-19 recovery grants worth $800 million, the official go-ahead has been given, with an internal review clearing all the previous government’s...

ASIC needs to boost its tech investment: review

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission “requires a substantial uplift in its data and technology capability” alongside a “material cultural change” to access the full benefit of any upgrade,...

Why it’s prime time for the Australian space industry

Sovereignty can mean different things to different people, but to those of us in the space and defence domain, sovereignty is about resilience. Resilience is our ability to bounce...