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...
Policy
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| by Ben Constable
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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| by Rhiannon Phillips, Emma Murtagh and Alanna Koh
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...
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| by Simon Marriott, Dr Frank Wagner and Dr Matthew Young
Australian manufacturing finds itself at a pivotal moment, grappling with myriad challenges that have led to its contribution to GDP dwindling to a record low of 5.4 per cent....
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Frustration over the management at the Tech Council (TCA) of the Richard White scandal has spilled over into a festering resentment among members about the way Mr White was...
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Biosecurity is critically important to Australia’s national interests as an island continent and major agricultural exporter. With over two-thirds of Australia’s land area dedicated to agriculture – which accounts...
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The Guinness World Record for the longest-running laboratory experiment is a title still held by the University of Queensland for its Pitch Drop experiment. It began in 1927 with...
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In a world where rival superpowers the United States and China are spending many trillions of dollars to win the new digital industrial revolution, Australia’s vital economic statistics and...
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Senate crossbenchers that the federal government needs to win over to pass its Future Made in Australia bill are demanding more transparency, emissions assessments and an explicit ban on...