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Relax! Your 2025 ultimate guide to Summer Reading has arrived!

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It will surprise absolutely no-one that the common themes among this year’s Summer Reading recommendations are artificial intelligence and geopolitical risk, with a sprinkling of re-industrialisation. The only surprise...

Defence industry warns Pillar II plan is half-baked

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Meagre funding and a lack of clarity over the direction of the advanced technologies component of AUKUS is threatening the success of the all-important ‘Pillar II’ initiative, according to...

AiGroup calls for better metrics on research returns

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The nation’s peak industry lobby AiGroup has called for immediate and substantial structural changes to Australia’s R&D system, with a key focus on commercialisation efforts, rather than simply pouring...

Capitalising the looming AI productivity bonanza

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
“Businesses and governments often overestimate the impact of new technologies in three years and radically underestimate their impact over ten.” This was how Microsoft founder Bill Gates summed up...

Manufacturing’s seventh straight month of growth

Posted on   |  by Staff Writers
Manufacturing achieved its seventh straight month of growth in April, and its quickest rate of expansion in three years, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index....