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Tim Ayres named Industry minister in new-look Cabinet

Manufacturing advocate and former Future Made in Australia assistant minister Tim Ayres has been named Australia’s new Industry minister, replacing Ed Husic after he was spectacularly dumped from the...

Gilmour Space shoots for landmark maiden launch this week

Gilmour Space Technologies will attempt the first orbital launch from Australian soil in more than 50 years as early as Thursday morning after receiving final approval from the space...

Microsoft’s Steve Worrall joins Telstra InfraCo as CEO

Microsoft Australia’s long-serving managing director Steven Worrall will leave the company to join Telstra InfraCo, the telecommunications giant’s infrastructure arm, as chief executive from September 1. Mr Worrall will...

Research facilitation programs driving ‘immense value’

Australian governments should double down on facilitation programs that dollar match funding for small and medium firms to work with researchers, new CSIRO analysis of the program outcomes shows....

Ed Husic: Ten years to build technology policy expertise

In his extraordinary interview on ABC TV’s Insiders program on Sunday, outgoing Industry and Science minister Ed Husic said he spent 10 years working and listening to understand the...

The Gig Guide: Australia’s top bureaucrat resigns

Glyn Davis, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has resigned after serving the last three years as Australia’s top public servant. Professor Davis’s resignation will...

NSW Health cools on high-risk innovation investment

NSW Health will move to diversify and re-balance its portfolio of research and innovation investments under a more risk-averse approach that creates “lasting impact and value”. The new approach...

All eyes on caucus as Ed Husic exits the Industry portfolio

Industry and Science minister Ed Husic is set to be dropped from federal Cabinet, a casualty of post-election factional jostling for positions in Anthony Albanese’s second ministry. But regardless...

PsiQuantum inks deal for ‘critical’ local cooling tech

One of the world’s largest cryoplants ever commissioned for a quantum computer will be built and tested offshore before being installed at PsiQuantum’s mammoth manufacturing facility in Brisbane later...

Tariff buster: Sydney mic mogul snaps up US rival

The parent company of Sydney manufacturer Rode Microphones, The Freedman Group, has acquired Lectrosonics, a 54-year-old US maker of high-end wireless audio equipment, making it one of the largest...