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NSW sets aside $10m for women-led VCs

Women-led startups will get access to a $10 million venture capital fund as part of the New South Wales government’s 2022-23 budget, to be released later this month. Named...

NSW govt inks three-year AWS deal for $57.6m

Global cloud giant Amazon Web Services has signed a three-year $57.6 million whole-of-government agreement with the New South Wales Department of Customer Service cluster through a non-tender direct negotiation....

Microsoft walks away from Top Secret cloud negotiation 

Global giant Microsoft has walked away from negotiations with the Office of National Intelligence for the provision of a Top Secret private cloud service after more than a year...

Govt cloud scramble: The sovereign demands of Top Secret

The sober ‘Notice to Industry’ issued by Defence outlining a plan to go to market for multi-vendor Secret Cloud Services belies the intensity of the scramble across the defence...

Quantum Brilliance installs world-first system at Pawsey

The world’s first diamond-based quantum accelerator has been installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Western Australia after more than a year of development by German-Australian deep tech...

Michelle Simmons: double ARC funding and focus on translation

Silicon Quantum Computing chief executive and 2022 Bakerian Medal winner Michelle Simmons says incoming industry minister Ed Husic’s focus on research translation and building Australian-designed and engineered technology here...

German hydrogen needs reliant on Australia and other exporters

After a week meeting industry and state governments across Australia, a German hydrogen delegate addressed attendees of the National Hydrogen Conference on Tuesday. The 35-member delegation from Germany featured...

Jason Clare’s long road to the Education portfolio

Higher education and research stakeholders have issued a warm welcome to Australia’s newest Education minister Jason Clare, despite his arrival coming as a surprise to many. Groups say they...

New ASPI chief was a Coalition govt captain’s call

The new chief of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute was not the preferred candidate of the influential think tank’s advisory council, which had made a recommendation to government after...