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Gig Guide: CSIRO appoints champion in America

CSIRO has appointed Dharmini Robertson as the new science counsellor for the United States and Canada. She will be based at the Australian embassy in Washington DC during her...

Innovation expert Glyn Davis appointed to lead PM&C

Professor Glyn Davis, an esteemed innovation and public policy expert and former chair of the Australia 2020 Summit, has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Department of...

Defence maps strategy for ‘Secret’ cloud services

The Department of Defence has unveiled details of a planned approach to market to transform its information technology operating environment to progressively establish diverse multi-vendor ‘Secret’ Cloud Services hosted...

A celebration of changemakers: TechDiversity Awards 2022

In a celebration of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the tech sector, #TechDiversity held its annual awards night on Thursday to recognise and pay tribute to the champions of...

WA startups press ideas for innovation strategy update

The Western Australian startup ecosystem is fired-up and ready to help drive the next stage of development following a state government-led innovation roundtable focused on next steps for the state....

Private investors to push govt on collective vehicles, skills

Australia’s private investment community will urge the new Labor government to introduce the limited collective investment vehicles that have stalled in Canberra for five years. Skilled migration and rolling...

Six space firms share in $5.5m from Moon to Mars program

Six Australian space firms have shared in just under $5.5 million as part of the latest round of the federal government’s Moon to Mars Supply Chain Capability Improvement grants....

UTS, USyd join US quantum ‘yardstick’ project

Quantum researchers from two Sydney universities will team with the US defence research agency and tech giants to develop better ways of measuring the race towards fault-tolerant quantum computers....