Microsoft’s 2022 Partner of the Year Awards has honoured five Australian firms as consulting firm EY Australia walked away with the partner of the year award for Australia. This...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The peak body for universities says the recent federal push into research commercialisation is welcome but has overshadowed a worrying drop in vital discovery research funding in Australia. Addressing...
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The launch of the federal government’s controversial Workforce Australia service and points-based activation system has been plagued by tech issues, with outages, poor services and “alarming” terms and conditions....
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The Communications Alliance has proposed a new spectrum strategy to the federal government for the delivery of video, data, content, and connectivity across Australia. The policy position is outlined...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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McKinsey has not been awarded an Australian government contract since February, and the global management consultants landing less than a quarter of the value of contracts from the Commonwealth...
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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...
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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...