Just a week after his appointment as the new Minister for Industry and Innovation, Tim Ayres took to the stage this week to set out his agenda – and...
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A scathing Auditor General’s report into maximising Australian industry participation in Defence procurement contracts has drawn mixed reaction from local industry, which called for changes to the way Defence...
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The urban policy think tank Committee for Sydney says a lack of alignment between national and state priorities and funding streams is diluting Australia’s capacity to leverage research and...
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The renowned Australian physicists that paved the way for Microsoft’s quantum technologies have unveiled their own venture aimed at bridging the gap between deep tech and the budding commercial...
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Services Australia ramped up its testing of automation and artificial intelligence last year in preparation for wider deployments aimed at cutting costs and improving services in 2025, despite incomplete...
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A critical minerals commercialisation hub first promised for Queensland more than two years ago has taken a big step forward, with construction now underway on the first-of-its-kind facility. Deputy...
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A federal government decision to withhold the cost of its latest three-year cloud mega-deal with Amazon Web Services has sparked transparency concerns and criticism that it has been strong-armed...
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Atlassian co-founder and chief executive Mike Cannon-Brookes has warned that regulating artificial intelligence “at such an early stage… seems crazy” and for governments to focus instead on the downstream...
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Australian autonomous systems outfit Advanced Navigation has successfully demonstrated a new hybrid system for super accurate navigation in GPS-denied environments. The company says the demonstration proves that its new...
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Ministerial speeches at the start of a new tenure rarely change the course of history, but they do set the tone and expectations. When Senator Tim Ayres addressed the...
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The University of Sydney has broken ground on its new biomedical facility, which has soared by $150 million in costs since the announcement three years ago but could “change...
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Local tech industry groups have lodged a set of revised online safety codes designed to protect children from exposure to pornography and age-inappropriate content after earlier drafts were knocked...
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A company that fabricates solar panels in Adelaide, folds them into shipping containers and then deploys them at solar farms 10 times faster than traditional installations will kick off...
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Victoria looks set to ramp up its use of artificial intelligence in regulatory decisions, with the state government revealing plans to use the technology to replace “outdated processes” as...