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AI is a fundamental shift, not a passing fad

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...

Key role for industry in critical infrastructure regime

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,...

Jim Rabeau is the CSIRO’s new quantum tech chief

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...

R&D tax incentive stabilises as audits become ‘balanced’

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....

Gilmour Space inks European launch partnership

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...

WA made satellite ready for blast off

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...

DTA ditches digital ‘transparency’ dashboard

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...

Govt to give ‘clarity’ on data sovereignty in two years

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,...

The future of moving, making and computing

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...

Andrea Gardiner on Australia’s startup funding gap

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...

Govt issues first commercial rocket flight permit

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...

Optus announces bid for Defence satellite program

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....

Govt committee calls for further ESS reforms

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...