Author: Justin Hendry

My Health Record gets $429m for technology upgrade

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
My Health Record will receive a $429 million cash injection from the Albanese government after an expert taskforce recommended the digital health platform be modernised to improve information sharing....

Govt backs quantum and AI industries with $101m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Albanese government has unveiled industry support programs for artificial intelligence and quantum technologies, allocating $101 million over five years in a new critical technologies package that includes a...

STEM programs get a tickle rather than an upgrade

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Industry department’s STEM engagement programs – targeting Australia’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Capabilities – have been given steady-as-she-goes roll-over funding, but the National Measurement Institute has enjoyed...

myGov gets Budget certainty, new money flows to Digital ID

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government has committed $134.5 million to give myGov “certainty and stability” for another 12 months while it considers the longer-term funding needs of the platform in the...

Embracing quantum at an inflection point

Posted on   |  by Professor Elanor Huntington
Henry Ford famously declared, “if I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. Over a century on, and it is technologies that exploit quantum...

CDC Data Centres’ emissions secrecy claim rejected

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A request from CDC Data Centres to have its greenhouse gas emissions data withheld from public release has been rejected by Australia’s clean energy watchdog. The company had argued...