The Western Australian government’s flagship innovation funding program delivered an outsized economic return in its first round, according to two independent reviews, with another review to be finalised in...
Policy
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Who are we? Where are we going? And can we keep the lights on and the carbon emissions down as we kick and scream all the way there? These...
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The Queensland government’s $465 million investment in PsiQuantum includes a US$125 million (A$188 million) convertible note, offering the state a potentially valuable share in the US firm vying to...
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A new set of guardrails that lays out clear human rights expectations for the use of artificial intelligence across federal, state and territory government for the first time has...
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The federal government has been accused of running a misleading quantum computing EoI that baited information from local players while commercial discussions with PsiQuantum were already well advanced. Current...
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The Future Made in Australia Act will mandate Treasury analysis of private investment barriers to promising sectors to ensure private capital is following taxpayers’ support for industries like green...
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In 1971 on a family holiday, my father drove us to look at a huge concrete slab at Jervis Bay, on the South Coast of New South Wales. Still...
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Australian government tech suppliers are celebrating the Albanese government’s procurement rule changes, which will see more consideration of a seller’s broader economic benefit like intellectual property transfer and taxes....
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Australia has recorded its best global competitiveness ranking in more than a decade, with growing investment, a strong labor market and technological infrastructure improvements helping it surpass other international...
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The federal government’s small and medium business procurement targets will be pushed to more ambitious levels and buyers will need to seek extra consultancy competition under changes announced by...
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Almost 100 parliamentary reports have had their recommendations dismissed by the Albanese government in the past month, as it works through a backlog of reports and recommendations that were...
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The Department of Defence did not implement additional probity measures for PwC contractors working on its troubled industry security clearance program last year, despite concerns about the company eventually...
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There was no movement on the amount spent on research and development activity inside government organisations in the first year of the Albanese government when measured as a proportion...
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The Senate committee leading scrutiny of global consulting giant PwC has called on the firm to come clean about the tax leaks scandal and urged the government to tighten...