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Cross-Tasman open access push to unlock research

Australian and New Zealand universities are teaming up to strike better open access deals with research publishers, in one of the first tests of how an alliance model could unlock more...

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The Gig Guide: OAIC gets its latest FOI commissioner

Lawyer and former chief counsel Alice Linacre has been appointed as Australia's new permanent Freedom of Information Commissioner, replacing Toni Pirani. Ms Linacre, who will take up...

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Australia’s AI ambitions must prioritise digital inclusion

In these turbulent times there seems to be one certainty: AI is here to disrupt, and we had better prepare quickly to maximise benefit and mitigate the risk. It makes sense that...

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News Wrap: All quiet on the mandatory guardrail front

It has been strangely quiet at Parliament House in Canberra this week, considering a national economic summit was being hosted by Treasurer Jim Chalmers. All the action was taking...

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Chalmers agrees to ‘make AI a national priority’

Dedicated industry and government plans to harness artificial intelligence will be developed with urgency after the Albanese government and stakeholders agreed to elevate the frontier...

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Tech Council pushes more ‘realistic’ R&D target

Australia’s peak tech industry lobby has urged the federal government to adopt an R&D investment target of 2 per cent of GDP by 2035, putting it at odds with other industry...

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Monash medical innovation accelerator opens with state backing

Monash University on Wednesday launched a new innovation accelerator to embed commercialisation capabilities into its medical research and the health sector. The purpose built Velos...

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AI won’t drive productivity without targeted govt policy

Productivity Commission chief Danielle Wood is right to describe artificial intelligence as a “general-purpose technology” in the mold of electricity, the internal combustion...

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$50.4m in CRC-P grants backs 21 new industry collaborations

The federal government has awarded more than $50 million in new Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grants, funding 21 industry-led collaborations across sectors including...