The pages of our national newspapers are littered with debate about the merits of the Albanese government’s Future Made in Australia policy. Yet, the one factor that supporters and...
Science
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Cutting edge cancer diagnosis and treatments could be produced, trialled and exported from South Australia using the waste from locally mined uranium, according to a new report claiming the...
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Cutting edge NSW biotechs trialling revolutionary stroke treatment, developing world-first therapies for Alzheimer’s disease, and using AI to create complex drugs have shared in $4.5 million from the state’s...
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Industry minister Ed Husic has claimed public interest immunity to withhold documents that reveal federal government dealings with US-based quantum computing firm PsiQuantum in the lead up to last...
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Government-backed investment funds have emerged as a key component of increasingly interventionist industrial policy strategies across the developed world. The is certainly the case in Australia, with the $15...
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The Queensland government has awarded almost $10 million to innovative small to medium sized businesses to bring products to market as well as to support innovation precincts. On Friday,...
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Industry and research representative group Science and Technology Australia has found its new chief executive in Ryan Winn, the current head of the Australian College of Learned Academies. Announced...
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The federal government on Wednesday opened applications for science diplomacy grants that were announced nearly three years ago. The grants get going after surviving a cut in last year’s...
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Australia’s industry development and economic well-being is being held back by a lack of strategy and bold, long-term funding, according to advocacy group Science and Technology Australia’s new president,...
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An lithium mining project in Western Australia has secured public financing in a new $550 million loan to get it through early production, expected to start later this year....
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Australia’s science and technology diplomacy fund looks set to be narrowed by the Albanese government after already being cut in last year’s Budget, with its key grants stream sitting...
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Australia’s biosecurity defences will be bolstered under a new CSIRO mission, putting the fight against invasive species and diseases alongside national challenges like clean energy and national security. The...
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A former chief scientist will argue in Parliament against rushing an AUKUS fuelled plan that restricts Australian researchers from working with non-US or UK counterparts, warning more scientific collaboration...
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The economic windfall of synthetic biology in Australia has been upgraded to $30 billion by the national science agency and its venture fund after investment flooded into research and...