The Minns government will consider further moves to reduce the state’s reliance on consultants in next month’s Budget after analysis found they were being engaged at a rate of...
Policy
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The Australian innovators and experts in command of new $5 million startup grants have been revealed as the Albanese government’s commercialisation program gets underway. The seven experts have decades...
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The federal Budget’s announcement of $22.7 billion for A Future Made in Australia, still leaves us with a valley of death funding gap for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) manufacturing facilities, particularly...
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The New South Wales government will create a separate digital inclusion strategy to complement the state’s forthcoming digital strategy, with work now underway on a framework to help bridge...
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New South Wales-based quantum companies will be overlooked for funding or drawn to other jurisdictions without additional support for the state’s innovation districts, according to the Committee for Sydney....
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Deepfakes present a growing threat to the integrity of Australia’s electoral system, according to the head of the electoral commission, who has warned that the agency is not equipped...
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The small business ombudsman has lashed an “underwhelming” government response to its procurement inquiry recommendations, after its calls for sweeping changes were quietly batted away. Earlier this month, the...
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For all the pre-budget Future Made in Australia hype; all the predictions that federal Labor would deliver a bold state-led ‘mission economy’ reindustrialisation agenda of the type evangelised by...
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Changes to export development grant rules will lock up to 70 per cent of applicants out of the scheme, according to the consultants that advise small businesses on the...
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A Dutton government would repeal the key part of the Future Made in Australia plan, lift a ban on nuclear energy and add social media platforms to a controversial...
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AI leaders and groups representing the wider tech sector have reacted with dismay at the absence of new funding for artificial intelligence from the Albanese government at a time...
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The Opposition will try and block an Albanese government plan to provide almost $14 billion in tax credits to Australia’s green hydrogen and critical minerals industries because taxpayers should...
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The Future Made in Australia agenda includes $22.7 billion in tax incentives and innovation investments, with the Albanese government on Tuesday confirming it will break with decades of economic...
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PsiQuantum has been loaned at least $200 million by the Albanese government to stage its attempts to build the world’s first commercial quantum computer in Brisbane, Budget documents reveal....