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Jason Clare outlines Aust Research Council funding review

Ministers’ power to veto research funding will be scrutinised as part of an independent inquiry into the role and function of the Australian Research Council, announced by Education minister...

Singapore-Aus Green Economy pact by end of year: Penny Wong

Ahead of her attendance at the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Bali, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday that the Singapore-Australia Green Economy Agreement currently being negotiated would...

Innovation Papers: A policy forum for industry growth

Australia’s tech and innovation leadership from across from industry, research and government will present policy papers in front of peers and policymakers at a special forum at the National...

Research advocate Gabrielle Upton to quit NSW state politics

Eastern Sydney Liberal MP Gabrielle Upton will quit state politics at the next election. Ms Upton led the taskforce responsible for government’s current focus on research and development in...

Reboot the Regional Communications Fund: ACCAN

The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network wants the new federal government to re-establish the regions-focused Communications Fund, in part to respond to estimates that there around 900,000 households without...

Big Blue: ServicesAus $50m private cloud server upgrade

Services Australia will spend $50 million to upgrade its five-year-old private cloud server fleet to IBM Power midrange hardware for use across the agency. The upgrade comes through a...

BioTech incubator lands $3m in CSIRO support

Australia’s national science agency has committed $3 million to support Melbourne-based BioTech incubator CUREator and to launch a new health security stream through the program. CUREator’s new health security...

Scammers drained $2 billion from Australians last year

Last year, Australians lost more than $2 billion to scams according to the consumer and competition watchdog’s 12th annual Targeting scams report, with the threat of cryptocurrency investment scams...

Army beefs up training rations for SAP roll-out

The Department of Defence is ramping up investment in training army personnel in SAP software over the next 18 months, as hundreds of its business processes are consolidated on...