More than $35 million will go towards a Queensland vaccine manufacturing facility as part of the state budget next week. The funds will support the development of a translational...
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Australia’s consumer regulator will target online marketplaces and sellers trying to manipulate customers using “dark patterns” over the next 12 months under new chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, who has called...
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The University of Melbourne will partner with the Victorian government to launch a $15 million fund targeting pre-seed startups, and has also announced a $100 million fund for later...
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Construction has begun on a new deep space antenna in regional Western Australia, with the new Labor government chipping in $4 million to the project which will see $29...
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Victoria’s first fully electric bus depot at a converted depot in Ivanhoe will be complete later this year as a part of the state government’s Zero Emissions Bus Trial....
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Encrypted messaging apps should be subject to at least the same regulations and laws as the likes of Facebook and Google to help combat online extremism, a Victorian inquiry...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog will likely investigate Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys after a consumer group uncovered the retailers’ use of facial recognition technology on customers. It comes after...
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Australian scientists have led this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours, making up over half of those awarded Companion of the Australian Order. Of the nine people made Companions of the...
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Australia has recorded a slight increase in its global competitiveness thanks to short-term economic factors, but this is masking longer-term issues around lagging productivity, low rates of entrepreneurship and...
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CSIRO’s Data61 has stopped work on transport analytics, a move sparked by a strategy reset at the business unit in May last year, which has prompted an entire research...
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All state-owned coal-fired power stations in Western Australia will close by 2030 as the state government launches a new green industry transition fund and commits the state-owned energy company...
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Free research and development support is now available to small and medium sized firms with cybersecurity needs through the latest round of its Innovate to Grow program. The program...
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Sydney’s Tech Central will add a secure collaborative research and innovation facility known as the “Vault” for cybersecurity and Defence projects, while one of the innovation precinct’s residents is...
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Despite the class action over the robodebt scandal settling last year, there are automated decisions still being made every day regarding government services that are impacting the most vulnerable...