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Deakin Trailblazer hands 20% of funds to Recharge Industries

Deakin University has awarded one-fifth of its $50 million University Trailblazer grant, received from the federal government last month, to Geelong-based Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation....

First regional road test for Aussie autonomous vehicle

The first regional test of Australia’s most advanced automated vehicle was launched in Bundaberg in Queensland last Wednesday by the state’s Minister for Transport and Main Roads. Prototype autonomous...

Gig Guide: CDR advocate returns to private sector

The Australian Regional Director of the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), Jamie Leach announced her resignation on Friday. Ms Leach has been in the role for the past...

SA Budget: Promises delivered as EXCITE funding canned

On Thursday, South Australian Treasurer Stephen Mullighan delivered his first state budget making good on millions of dollars of promises to the hydrogen industry while cutting funding to the...

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...