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Microsoft enters Australian space race

Microsoft Australia’s Lynn McDonald is on a mission to help the local space industry take off and “break the mould”, with an aim to have Microsoft as one of...

Online retailers ‘race to the bottom’ on privacy

Online retailers offer no genuine competition on privacy to Australian consumers, allowing them to conduct “pervasive” and “unnecessary” data collection, a leading privacy expert has told the competition and...

Govt’s patent box needs to go much further: AIC

There is a “unique opportunity” in Australia to build an effective patent box scheme but the federal government needs to go much further than its current plan to make...

Judging underway: 2021 Awards for Excellence

Judging has started across all categories of the InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence, bringing together an outstanding group of companies and entrepreneurs for this celebration of Australian talent. The entries...

Cathy Foley, uni VCs warn on translation risks

Australia’s chief scientist and university vice-chancellors have urged caution in the latest COVID-19-driven push by governments to commercialise research, warning it must not come at the expense of fundamental...

Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned

OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...

eSafety chief readies for online content crackdown

The eSafety Commissioner has opened consultations on a range of new measures to crackdown on social media firms and other platforms to block underage individuals from accessing online pornography...

New laws to expand CDR to energy sector

Electricity providers will be required to allow households and businesses to access their energy data under draft laws expanding the Consumer Data Right to the sector, released by the...

Govt accredits first private digital ID provider

The first private company has received accreditation from the federal government as a digital identity provider, with legislation facilitating a significant expansion of the digital ID program set to...

A digital path to growth in manufacturing

The southern Adelaide industrial suburb of Lonsdale has been going through hard times recently with the closure first of Mitsubishi then Holden and a nearby oil refinery leading to...

Audit finds conflicts of interest in IBM Defence work

IBM representatives were present and involved in decisions at several meetings related to a major Defence information technology project which resulted in the company receiving contract amendments worth nearly...

PwC paid $1m per month for vaccine rollout work

The federal government is paying global consulting giant PwC nearly $1 million per month across 2021 to assist with its troubled COVID-19 vaccine rollout, under a previously secret contract...

‘Solid footing’: Labor promises Higher Ed accord

A Labor government would establish a universities accord as part of a new commitment to apply the bipartisan approach enjoyed by defence and national security to the higher education...

Korea eyes Aussie critical minerals for new economy

Australia has a multi-billion-dollar export opportunity to move up the supply chain of the critical minerals it exports by refining the materials used in computer components, renewable technologies and...