Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a fundamental change across society and cannot be treated as a trend that will pass us by in a couple of years, according to Digital...
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Businesses large and small across a broad swathe of the Australian economy will be affected by new legislation which sets out to protect critical infrastructure and their supply chains,...
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The CSIRO’s newly established Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform has found its first director with the appointment of Dr Jim Rabeau, the former Sydney University professor and deputy director...
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There is finally some stability around the research and development tax incentive, with long-mooted reforms implemented and audits becoming more balanced, according to an expert advisor on the scheme....
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Australia needs to secure battery value chains out of China, according to new national security research which warns the superpower controls a “strategic choke point” in global supply chains...
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Gold Coast-based rocket startup Gilmour Space Technologies has signed its first European partnership agreement with German outfit Exolaunch, a provider of rideshare launch, deployment and in-space transportation services for...
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A small satellite made from scratch in Western Australia will be aboard a SpaceX rocket that launches from the US on Saturday, representing the state’s first space mission in...
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The federal government has shut down its Performance Dashboard, used to improve digital services and provide transparency to the public, as part of a significant restructuring of its digital...
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Home Affairs is leading the development of a data security “Action Plan” to provide more clarity to governments and industry on the Commonwealth’s approach to data sovereignty and security,...
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We spoke to local leaders in electrified transport, additive manufacturing and quantum technologies in an attempt to understand what the future holds for each. By Brent Balinski. “We wanted...
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Jelix Ventures founder and chief executive Andrea Gardiner says the biggest challenge for pre-revenue and early-revenue startups in Australia remains the difficulty in securing funding, despite the huge volumes...
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South Australian space company Southern Launch will send a Taiwanese rocket into sub-orbit after receiving the first local permit for commercial rocket activities from the federal government. Taiwanese private...
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Telco giant Optus will lead a bid alongside two multinational Defence contractors for a major satellite communications system project aimed at providing Australia’s military with sovereign capability in space....
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Australia’s current Employee Share Scheme is “complicated and restrictive” and the recently proposed reforms need to go much further to make it world-leading, a government-led committee has found. The...