Australia needs to build an end-to-end hydrogen ecosystem across the nation serving multiple hard to abate use-cases in order to meet our 2050 decarbonisation commitments. Avoiding a monopoly trap...
Science
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The leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie has warned government against being too prescriptive about which technologies will successfully drive the transition to a net zero...
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The rewriting of the relationship between industrial policy and trade policy is one of the defining challenges of our times, according to the assistant minister for both manufacturing and...
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One of the headline ideas floated by the Universities Accord interim report is a second national university. This would be on top of the existing Australian National University in...
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Conservation expert Professor Kerrie Wilson has been named Queensland’s new chief scientist after an almost year-long search by the state government. Professor Wilson, who is currently the Queensland University...
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There is a huge amount of attention being given right now in Australia to accelerating the development of new capabilities in technology areas of strategic importance. InnnovationAus.com has assembled...
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Dell has won CSIRO’s $15 million contract to replace the science agency’s GPU cluster to better handle artificial intelligence and machine learning. The new cluster is expected to be...
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The Industry department has put out a call for contractors to help deliver its $392 million commercialisation program, seeking around 20 individuals to deliver advice and help with grants...
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Queensland is set to develop its own quantum strategy to capture a greater slice of the nascent sector expected to be worth $4.6 billion to the Australian economy by...
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The New South Wales government will pour nearly $7 million into three local quantum spinouts to help commercialise their hardware and software. Sydney-based firms Diraq, Q-CTRL and Quantum Brilliance...
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With Australia now set on a path of intensive re-industrialisation and tens of billions of targeted investment dollars being readied for deployment, attention has turned to identifying areas of...
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Australia should focus investment in building sovereign capability in quantum and other innovative technologies, rather than play catch up with “yesterday’s technology” like semiconductors, according to the new head...
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Molecular and cellular biologist Professor Doug Hilton will be the next chief executive of the CSIRO, replacing its longest serving leader Dr Larry Marshall when he steps down later...
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CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall will exit the national science agency at the end of the month after an eight-and-a-half-year run. The organisation is in better shape than when...