Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) represent a critical challenge in modern healthcare systems worldwide. These infections, contracted by patients during medical treatment, contribute significantly to global morbidity and mortality, claiming approximately...
Policy
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We are well-practised in navigating the predictable milestones – youth, puberty, parenting – and we’re becoming more familiar with menopause and mental health. However, when it comes to dying...
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Melbourne-based Professor Nicholas Opie has been a superstar exemplar among Australia’s deep tech entrepreneur researchers for more than a decade. Professor Opie is a co-founder of the brain-computer interface...
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An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws containing more than 60 recommendations for change has been handed to Communications minister Michelle Rowland. Former competition watchdog deputy chair Delia...
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Australia’s MedTech sector is a sleeping giant. National strengths in genomic medicine, digital health and precision medicine, along with lighthouses like Cochlear and a pipeline of promising startups, all...
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The Albanese government is being urged to amend its investment mandates and risk appetites to channel more of its landmark industry support to research and deep technologies after analysis...
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Australia’s biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipients’ fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct scandal and a critical...
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Just as a savvy startup founder would position her novel product offering against a market unmet need, confirmed with objective market data, so we in Australia’s healthcare innovation ecosystem...
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Quantum, AI and robotics are recognised as technologies that are critical to the growth of Australia’s economy, creating well-paying jobs and improving our lives. The path for Australia to...
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“Businesses and governments often overestimate the impact of new technologies in three years and radically underestimate their impact over ten.” This was how Microsoft founder Bill Gates summed up...
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The Minns government will consider the need for a centralised office to lead artificial intelligence policy and strategy in New South Wales as part of its response to a...
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Industrialising the production of biochar could place Australia in a unique position to become a global leader in the permanent removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Biochar is...
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Once the embattled software entrepreneur Richard White had resigned from WiseTech Global – the company he founded 30 years ago – it was only a matter of time before...
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Extended Reality (XR) is game-changing technology, and Queensland has the talent to become a global player in this booming industry. Over the past decade, the global use of XR...