David Thodey hopes to attract federal infrastructure funding to the just-announced Technology and Innovation Precinct in Sydney, and says the ambitious project will include residential development and a broad...
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The vocal ‘anti-China’ forces in Australia that the federal government is now attempting to counter – somewhat awkwardly – continue to view the technology world through a very US...
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Malcolm Turnbull has delivered a sometimes gushing pro-China speech at the University of NSW in Sydney, just two days after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked Julie Bishop during...
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Earlier this year, I had a remarkable opportunity to spend three weeks in Australia – a nation that was my home when I earned my doctorate at the Australian...
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Sydney-based space company Saber Astronautics has secured a $1 million-plus defence contract to roll out an electronic signals damage detection technology. The funding is for phase two of a...
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The federal government is over-reliant on the R&D tax incentive as its core innovation support policy and should instead focus on direct initiatives like grants and co-investment, Innovation and...
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The federal opposition has pledged $3 million for the creation of a new Artificial Intelligence not-for-profit research centre that would focus on issues of ethics and the future of...
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Emerging technologies have the potential to greatly impact basic human rights and governments must step up to regulate their use, Australian artificial intelligence luminary expert Toby Walsh said. It...
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Australia’s global innovation ranking has improved, moving up three places in the Global Innovation Index 2018 co-authored by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Australia...
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A number of international tech companies, organisations and experts have joined in the fight against the Australian government’s decryption push, saying this would create “severe risks”. A coalition of...
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The federal opposition and Greens have backed a call from tech giant Microsoft for governments around the world to regulate the use of facial recognition technology. Microsoft president Brad...
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The regulation of artificial intelligence ethics is now a “live political issue”, with several heavyweight players calling for urgent action on the matter. With $30 million in funding in...
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A significant data breach involving the federal government’s My Health Record is “just a matter of time”, digital rights advocates argue, as the three month opt-out period begins. Civil...
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Australian government cannot afford to “tinker” with innovation, it must be much braver says Michelle Blum, CEO of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce. “There needs to be a...