Queensland’s sovereign wealth fund on Tuesday hopped into a $125 million climate technology venture capital fund, boosting the funding available to local startups while expanding its global climate mandate....
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The Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator has awarded more than $60 million in long-term R&D contracts to local quantum and defence tech companies, universities and the CSIRO. Analog Quantum Circuits,...
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Hardware giant Bunnings breached the privacy of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australians when it used facial recognition technology on in-store CCTV footage, the privacy watchdog has found. In...
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Bureaucratic and technical jargon obscured critical risks to Defence’s troubled clearance system from top brass and ministers, while contractors were able to influence the direction of outsourced work. That’s...
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Public sector organisations increasingly rely on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as a unified platform to streamline business processes across finance, human resources, procurement and asset management. While ERP...
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Deceptive deepfake videos and voice clones will be banned during elections and referendums under Albanese government truth in political advertising laws introduced on Monday to try stem the flow...
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Australia’s first standalone Cybersecurity Bill has been given the green light by the powerful intelligence and security committee, paving the way for its debate in Parliament later this week....
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SafetyCulture founder Luke Anear is stepping back from his role as chief executive of the Sydney software unicorn, with an American property executive to take the day-to-day reins next...
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Flying vehicle startup AMSL Aero has completed the first untethered test flight of its Australian designed and manufactured electric aircraft in New South Wales’ central west. The battery-powered ‘free’...
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The federal Opposition will on Monday press for a parliamentary inquiry into the government’s investment in US-based quantum computing startup PsiQuantum, claiming questions remain about whether proper probity processes...
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A trial of age verification technology will not deliver its findings to the federal government until six months after proposed legislation banning social media for under-16s is introduced to...
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The Western Australian government has hosed down popular calls for the appointment of a chief entrepreneur two months after a parliamentary inquiry recommended the move, saying it had already...
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Sydney’s state-backed space accelerator has begun accepting Defence and aerospace companies to meet growing dual-use demand, as some of its early graduates take off ahead of a decision on...
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Billions of dollars worth of sourcing agreements with the likes of IBM, Microsoft and SAP will be reviewed by the federal government, as it considers shifting the deals to...