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Queensland sharpens focus on quantum and net zero

The Guinness World Record for the longest-running laboratory experiment is a title still held by the University of Queensland for its Pitch Drop experiment. It began in 1927 with...

A priority reset is needed to lift Australia’s productivity

In a world where rival superpowers the United States and China are spending many trillions of dollars to win the new digital industrial revolution, Australia’s vital economic statistics and...

R&D ‘languishing’ despite lift in government spending

The federal government expects to lift overall spending on R&D by almost $650 million this financial year, outpacing sluggish R&D spending growth in the private sector, according to new...

Landmark space re-entry approval sets up 2025 tilt in SA

South Australian launch operator Southern Launch will attempt Australia’s first commercial space re-entry early next year at its Koonibba Test Range after receiving clearance from the Australian government. The...

Senate crossbench draws Future Made in Australia battlelines

Senate crossbenchers that the federal government needs to win over to pass its Future Made in Australia bill are demanding more transparency, emissions assessments and an explicit ban on...

Gig Guide: CSIRO CIO Brendan Dalton calls time

The CSIRO’s chief information officer of nearly nine and a half years, Brendan Dalton, will retire at the end of this year. Mr Dalton, who was also chief information...

Reclaiming sovereignty over strategic technologies

Australian governments have been discussing innovation, advanced manufacturing, and the vision of making more (and more high-tech things) in Australia… for decades. Yet here we are in 2024, ranked...

ANU research and innovation staff caught in austerity plan

The Australian National University’s research and innovation arm will lose more than 10 per cent of staff as part of a major cost-saving restructure designed to cut salary cost by...

NSW Treasurer to deliver 2024 Awards keynote

New South Wales Treasurer Daniel Mookhey will deliver the industry keynote address at the gala dinner for the 2024 InnovationAus Awards for Excellence in Sydney on October 30. From...

‘Secretive and dishonest’ platforms cop a Senate spray

Digital platform giants claim they would become the “sole arbiters of truth online” if the Albanese government’s misinformation laws pass but are facing strong push back from lawmakers for...

Acusensus tech pumps breaks on the ‘fatal five’

In 2019, the NSW government unveiled a world-first program to crackdown on illegal mobile phone use by drivers.  In 2021, the Queensland government kicked off a first-of-its-kind seatbelt compliance...