An expert working group has finalised a decade-long strategic plan for Australia’s national research infrastructure, calling for continued secure funding and expansion into new areas, as well as more...
The sharing of public sector data will significantly increase after legislation opening up a “new path” for this passed Parliament with bipartisan support on the last possible day before the...
Four companies will share in nearly $11 million to deliver digital cadetships as part of a federal government program, as tech jobs and skills become an election issue. Just...
A consortium known as the Australian Space Manufacturing Network and led by Gilmour Space Technologies has secured $52 million in federal funding to manufacture launch vehicles and satellites and...
A bipartisan Senate committee has rejected a bill that would strip the Education minister of research funding veto powers, despite widespread community support and an unprecedented backlash to the...
Australia’s digital identity scheme is unlikely to be legislated before the election after the federal government missed its own deadline to introduce a bill rolling out privacy protections and...
Less than a third of the funding from the Coalition’s flagship $1.6 billion research commercialisation accelerator program will make it to universities in the next five years, with most...
The University Research Commercialisation Action Plan has been developed by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. However, in a case of ‘if all you have is a hammer,...
Labor has promised not to block any funding for research projects recommended to it by the Australian Research Council following backlash to several Coalition ministers vetoing funding fo humanities...
A parliamentary inquiry will examine the power of ministers to veto research funding after the Greens successfully referred their bill seeking to the remove the power to the Senate...