Tag: Minderoo Foundation

Changing the way we deal with natural threats

Posted on   |  by Adrian Turner
Australia is staring down the barrel of threats posed by climate-related natural disasters that – as evidenced by the 2022 floods in NSW and Queensland – we are just...

Generational change: From response to resilience

Posted on   |  by Adrian Turner
Prevention is better than cure: it’s a familiar idiom that expresses a simple truth yet its logic is often ignored. Sometimes the effort required now to address future natural...

Forrest’s Tattarang launches $250m HealthTech VC firm

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia has a brand new HealthTech and BioTech venture capital outfit called Tenmile and backed with $250 million in capital from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s investment group Tattarang. Based...

Sport, data, and an unspooling privacy problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia has a chance to be ahead of the curve and get the settings right to prevent the further invasive collection of data in professional sport, according to Professor...

A new model for innovation: Adrian Turner

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Philanthropic organisations are able to mobilise capital and drive innovation to solve big, thorny problems in a way that governments cannot, according to Adrian Turner, the former CSIRO executive...

What tech leader Adrian Turner did next

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Former Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner has pulled together an extensive coalition of banks, corporate giants and not-for-profit social service delivery organisations under Twiggy Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation to build...
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