Tag: Anthony Albanese

AI in Australia will ‘create jobs, not take them’: Albanese

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Anthony Albanese says artificial intelligence will deliver “secure and fulfilling jobs”, not threaten them, as the government looks to create a more productivity-focused economy. The Prime Minister made the...

AWS cranks $20b into Australian AI data centre push

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Amazon Web Services says it will spend $20 billion in Australia over the next five years on business operations, including on a significant expansion of its data centre infrastructure....

News Wrap: Productivity gets a slot in policy prime-time

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was at the Press Club this week telling Australia that he had instructed the Treasurer Jim Chalmers to convene a special Productivity Roundtable in...

Albanese’s new ministry recalibrates machinery of innovation

Posted on   |  by Dr John H Howard
The Second Albanese Ministry and its 2025 Administrative Arrangements Order show a government shifting decisively from reform design to delivery architecture. With stable super-departments and a growing cadre of...

Podcast: PM lifts tech focus in new ministry

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
In this episode of Commercial Disco, host James Riley and InnovationAus.com editor Justin Hendry discuss the Cabinet reshuffle following the Albanese government’s landslide victory in the May federal election....

Tim Ayres named Industry minister in new-look Cabinet

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Manufacturing advocate and former Future Made in Australia assistant minister Tim Ayres has been named Australia’s new Industry minister, replacing Ed Husic after he was spectacularly dumped from the...

The Gig Guide: Australia’s top bureaucrat resigns

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Glyn Davis, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has resigned after serving the last three years as Australia’s top public servant. Professor Davis’s resignation will...

All eyes on caucus as Ed Husic exits the Industry portfolio

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry and Science minister Ed Husic is set to be dropped from federal Cabinet, a casualty of post-election factional jostling for positions in Anthony Albanese’s second ministry. But regardless...

All Albanese’s innovation sweeteners from the election

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
With Anthony Albanese and Labor claiming a decisive victory at the weekend’s election, attention now turns to the second-term government’s ambitious agenda for the next three years. Buffeted by...