There are varying opinions of who should be Australia’s next cyber security chief, what that role should look like, and whether there’s an opportunity for an incoming government to...
Skills
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An elected Labor government would provide $7.5 million towards a major telescope project in Western Australia in a “white coat meets blue collar” policy announcement. The funding will be...
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Kim Carr has doubled down on Labor’s support for the local electric vehicles sector, announcing a $57 million pledge to help build a new local automotive industry centred on...
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The leaders of seven Australian health and biotech industry groups have joined forces to press both sides of politics to preserve and strengthen support of research and development. In...
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Digital health is a much misunderstood term in Australia at a time when the emerging sector is coming of age elsewhere in the world. This is not about ICT...
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Federal Labor will offer businesses an R&D tax offset premium for collaborating with universities and science-based agencies like the CSIRO to bring new knowledge and innovations to market. The...
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The Coalition will hand Australia’s manufacturing sector a $50 million boost as part of the newly created Manufacturing Modernisation Fund. Under the fund, which would be matched by $110...
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Labor has pledged $25 million for the creation of regional digital skills hubs, and has put government tech suppliers on notice that they should be prepared to create on...
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A long-term commitment to invest in STEM education and research from all sides of politics is essential if Australia wants to be taken seriously as an innovation hub, the...
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Labor says it will splash $20 million to establish a space industry cluster in the NSW regional suburb of Jerrabomberra, located just over the border with the Australian Capital...
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Establishing a $100 million skills fund to address the needs of the fourth industry revolution is one of 17 policy ideas the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has put forward...
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It’s difficult to get beyond the headlines about the race between the United States and China to set 5G standards, and competition over the future global market for emerging...
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Labor’s R&D target of three per cent of GDP in the coming decade requires science to be “back at the centre of government,” says shadow industry minister Kim Carr, together...
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South Australian AI-based medical imaging startup Presagen has completed a $4.5 million funding raise, enabling the company to take its technology designed to help identify healthy embryos for in-vitro...