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Productivity, security and the cost of neglecting Australia’s R&D

For years, Australia has talked about productivity, resilience and sovereign capability as if they were abstract ambitions rather than outcomes of deliberate policy choices. The Strategic Examination of R&D...

Budget 2026: Govt’s rare chance to lay an innovation bedrock

3 February 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Science and research groups have urged the Albanese government to seize a rare policy reset opportunity to address a national R&D system at “breaking point”. In pre-budget submissions released...

R&D is the lever that will lift productivity – if we choose to pull it

7 October 2025 | by Vicki Thomson

The Economic Reform Roundtable was pitched as a pivotal moment for Australia’s economic future. But ambition alone won’t lift productivity. If the roundtable is to matter, it must now...

Research reprieve: Govt eases cap on international students

4 August 2025 | by Trish Everingham

The federal government will allow an extra 25,000 international students to enrol in Australia next year in a boost to research heavy universities that rely on the foreign student...

Far Horizons: Uni sector renews push to join EU innovation program

10 June 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The university sector has stepped up its call for Australia to sign on to the world’s largest research fund, Horizon Europe — a move that would need the Albanese...

‘It makes no sense’: Student caps threaten research work

7 April 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

A Coalition plan to further cap international students would pull hundreds of millions of dollars out of Australia’s research system and shut out some of the world’s best early...

‘Just-in-time’ Budget funding won’t cut it, researchers warn

26 March 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

Australia’s research community has warned the Albanese government has missed another opportunity to start rebuilding an ailing research and development system into one that can meet looming challenges like...

Fuse RDTI and NRF to drive research investment: Go8

22 July 2024 | by Brandon How

The multibillion-dollar R&D tax incentive should be expanded to offer equity and debt financing from the National Reconstruction Fund to businesses that collaborate with local research institutions, the Group of...

ITAR barriers come down as AUKUS tech trade reforms pass

27 March 2024 | by Justin Hendry

Controversial legislation that creates a licence-free environment for technology sharing between Australia and the United States and United Kingdom has passed Parliament with amendments that bake in exemptions for...

Ring fence basic research funding in ARC overhaul

25 January 2024 | by Joseph Brookes

Government funding for blue sky research should be protected by a legislated ring-fence in order to reverse decades of decline and to “feed the very beginning” of the innovation...

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