The federal government will spend $1.4 million on a platform to push just 80 unemployed young Australians into gig economy work with the likes Uber and Airtasker in a...
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Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan will release an updated state innovation policy by the end of the year, but has cautioned against any expectations of large new spending programs....
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CSIRO boss and former Silicon Valley denizen Larry Marshall used all his pitching powers to try and wow the troops at the National Press Club this week, revealing Australia’s...
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Many Sydneysiders joke that going over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the north shore requires a passport, even though to travel by car from one side of the bridge...
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The CSIRO marked a huge milestone this week with the formal launch of its Main Sequence Ventures and the unveiling of four investments it has made into Australian deep-tech...
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The security of cryptocurrencies could be “completely broken” by quantum computers within 10 years, a new Australian report has found. The white paper, Quantum Attacks on Bitcoin and How...
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It is already last month’s news that Chinese leader Xi Jinping emerged triumphant from the 19th Communist Party Congress as the effective one-man ruler – some would say dictator...
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Legislation outlining a new data-sharing regime within the Victorian government with the aim of improving policy-making has been introduced to Parliament. The Victorian Data Sharing Bill 2017 aims to...
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La Trobe University’s Professor Jenny Graves has become the first woman to be awarded the nation’s most prestigious science award, having scooped the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, for...
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The federal government has reaffirmed a bilateral space agreement with NASA just weeks after it announced it would be creating a national space agency. The Space Tracking Treaty was...
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Of all the things that are happening in the energy sector in Australia right now, the least talked about but most interesting relates to entrepreneurial innovation in energy-related products...
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Innovation and Science Australia chairman Bill Ferris’ aim to hand his 2030 Strategic Plan for the nation’s industry development policies to government this week has been thwarted by circumstance....
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The federal government’s new facial recognition capabilities are set to be made available to the private sector in what digital rights group have branded a “complete betrayal” of civil...
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Government must get on the front foot in embracing and regulating new technologies to ensure Australia can be a “test bed” for the world’s great innovations, Assistant Innovation Minister...