A successful funding round has landed $32 million for drone mapping and data analytics startup Emesent. After an oversubscribed series A funding round, led by Australian investment firm Perennial...
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South Australia has reappointed Chief Scientist Professor Caroline McMillen to the role for another three years. Professor McMillen has been in the role since October 2018 following her time...
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The 2021 Regional Telecommunications Review (RTR) Report that was tabled in Parliament last week has missed an opportunity to highlight the despair and frustration felt by many living in...
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Grants worth $4 million have been awarded to six projects aiming to reduce methane emissions by innovating around cattle and sheep feed. This was awarded through the first stage...
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The New South Wales Government has announced the recipients of its small business innovation program, awarding $1.5 million in grants to companies that developed solutions for defined government challenges...
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Less than a third of the funding from the Coalition’s flagship $1.6 billion research commercialisation accelerator program will make it to universities in the next five years, with most...
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Global consulting giant PwC was paid $105,000 in a fortnight to provide just six staff to the Industry department to assist in the assessment and issuing of government grants....
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The Opposition says government missed a significant opportunity to rebuild Australian manufacturing around vaccines and rapid antigen tests, labelling the Coalition’s flagship $1.2 billion Modern Manufacturing Fund a “complete...
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ABC’s 3 million iview users will need to have a user account by mid-March to continue watching as part of the public broadcaster’s “personalisation” push. The accounts track user...
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The Industry department is spending five times as much on advertising the government’s net-zero emissions strategy as it did on experts to model the impact of the widely disputed...
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Critical infrastructure legislation has been passed by the lower house before the national security committee has reported back on it, in what Labor says is a “departure from long-standing...
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Engineers Australia has reported that job vacancies were up 50 per cent overall for 2021 compared to the year before, with demand for engineers at a ten-year high. The...
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Australian startup accelerator Startmate will invest more than $1.9 million across 16 startups who make up this year’s summer following a change to the standard terms. Each participating firm...
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CSIRO is seeking to expand its quantum research capability to ensure Australia remains at the forefront in the development of this new technology. Last May, CSIRO announced it would...