Adjunct Professor and scale up specialist Peter Rossdeutscher has been appointed the federal government’s top innovation adviser after decades working across the quantum, mining, robotics, and startup sectors. The...
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A University of Queensland startup has commercialised a new energy efficient and environmentally friendly processing technology that enables copper to be extracted from previously unviable, low-quality resources. The company,...
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Scientists and engineers are calling on the Albanese government to develop new long-term policy to close Australia’s $32 billion research and development gap, warning the innovation system is at...
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Deloitte will be paid close to $1 million to devise a plan for the tax office’s enterprise resource planning overhaul as part of the federal government’s latest attempt to...
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Sophisticated investor rules should be overhauled to take into account knowledge and experience tests, a parliamentary committee has recommended in a bid to boost local capital investment. The call...
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There is only so much thinking most of us can do in our heads. Try dividing 16,951 by 67 without reaching for a pen and paper. Or a calculator....
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The announcement by French President Emmanuel Macron this week that France will make major investments of $180 billion to support AI adoption across its economy and Europe marked a...
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Healthcare providers will be forced to upload key health information to My Health Record by default after laws designed to improve the utility of the national digital health platform...
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Banks, telcos and online platforms like Google and Facebook will be subject to new rules and $50 million penalties after federal Parliament passed world-first anti-scam laws on Thursday. But...
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New laws forcing agencies to cooperate with the Commonwealth Ombudsman and surrender documents have passed parliament, in the latest part of the government’s response to the Robodebt royal commission....
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The just-created federal ERP marketplace is a generational re-write of the government’s enterprise software strategy, giving departments and agencies a broader choice and new opportunities for tailored deployments. Established...
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The Australian Computer Society reported an almost $7 million loss last financial year, marking its first deficit in more than a decade and forcing the organisation to eat into...
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Battery storage manufacturer Allegro Energy is one of five local scaleups to share in the latest allocation of funds from the federal government’s flagship innovation pipeline program. Allegro Energy,...
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Anyone expecting Industry and Science minister Ed Husic to use his National Press Club address on Wednesday to detail policies to boost Australia’s R&D investment to the same level...