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The true cost of Australia’s ‘silver tsunami’

We are well-practised in navigating the predictable milestones – youth, puberty, parenting – and we’re becoming more familiar with menopause and mental health. However, when it comes to dying...

Panel beaters: Audit lays bare Digital Marketplace misuse

Canberra’s $15 billion tech panel is being routinely exploited by officials, who use it as a veneer of competition when handing hundreds of millions of dollars to their preferred...

Falloff in cyber reports as businesses lawyer up

Australia’s cyber intelligence agency has witnessed a falloff in businesses proactively reporting cyber incidents in recent months, delaying their ability to respond as firms increasingly lawyer up. As Parliament...

Gig Guide: Qld gets a Customer Service minister

Queensland’s new Premier David Crisafulli has appointed a new Minister for Customer Services and Open Data after scrapping the former government’s Digital Services portfolio. Steve Minnikin was sworn in as...

Victoria’s VC fund posts loss after grants drop off

The Victorian government’s $2 billion venture capital fund recorded its first loss since inception last financial year, despite adding more than $190 million in new investments to its portfolio....

SA govt’s hydrogen plant secures final approval

The South Australian government’s $593 million plan to build a hydrogen power station, production facility and storage has received environmental approval from the federal government. The approval, announced by...

Synchron beats a successful path from lab to market

Melbourne-based Professor Nicholas Opie has been a superstar exemplar among Australia’s deep tech entrepreneur researchers for more than a decade. Professor Opie is a co-founder of the brain-computer interface...

Online safety review lands on Rowland’s desk

An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws containing more than 60 recommendations for change has been handed to Communications minister Michelle Rowland. Former competition watchdog deputy chair Delia...

DFAT officials, contractors investigated over dodgy deals

Investigations have been launched into more than a dozen officials and contractors at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australian Passport Office over its cowboy procurements. The probes...

Ian Meredith: Charting a course to global markets

Australia’s MedTech sector is a sleeping giant. National strengths in genomic medicine, digital health and precision medicine, along with lighthouses like Cochlear and a pipeline of promising startups, all...

Landmark NRF startup deals within weeks

The first investments from the Albanese government’s landmark $15 billion manufacturing fund will be revealed within weeks as part of series A or B raises of local startups. The National...

Govt urged to unshackle industry policy billions

The Albanese government is being urged to amend its investment mandates and risk appetites to channel more of its landmark industry support to research and deep technologies after analysis...