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SunDrive fabricates first ever full-size solar panel

South Sydney solar cell startup SunDrive Solar has successfully fabricated its first ever full size solar panels. The company took to social media to reveal the news which is...

Stalled data-sharing overhaul has not moved in a year

The federal government still can’t appoint a full National Data Commissioner as a statutory role or get its data strategy off the ground due to a failure to get...

Workforce management’s grim record for 2021

Company directors, HR managers, and senior executives in public sector departments, received more bad news last week. Just when they would have been hoping they had seen the end...

Three years in the making: Australian Data Strategy launched

Three and half years after appointing an interim National Data Commissioner to build-out federal data policy frameworks, the government has launched the first ever Australian Data Strategy. The strategy,...

ARC chief is out after ‘new direction’ for uni research funding

The Coalition is overhauling university research funding and governance to align it with its manufacturing priorities and commercialisation agenda, in a “new direction” the government says will drive Australia’s...

On AI ‘we can’t compete on scale, only expertise’

A framed intergalactic trader, a prison planet and the tantalising prospect of escape is what started it for me. I first came across Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a teenage...

Govt poaches Microsoft AI head to lead new centre

The federal government has poached Microsoft’s global artificial intelligence solution sales lead to head its new National AI Centre, which it says will serve as the “front door” for...

Govt not briefed on crypto travel rule as warnings rise

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has not yet been briefed on the crypto currency data sharing ‘travel’ rule and the federal government has no intention of developing a technology...

AdBlue, sovereign capability and a gas-led recovery

For a government that has used advanced manufacturing, sovereign capability and a gas-led recovery as the organising principles underlying its industrial policy for the past 18 months, the sudden...