The Future Made in Australia agenda faced significant opposition from Treasury officials, but over time there has been increasing support for net zero industry development efforts, according to the...
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Australia’s largest bank and a medical centre have signed on to test Canberra’s verifiable credentials project, which is promising to harden the nation against cyber attacks and scams by...
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Tech services giants Accenture and Deloitte are running key parts of the Bureau of Meteorology’s new forecasting technology, leveraging their original deals to build the platforms into $27 million...
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Australia’s leading constitutional law expert Anne Twomey says there is a potential “constitutional problem” with the government’s definition of misinformation and serious harm in proposed laws. Appearing before a...
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Australia’s trailblazing innovators and changemakers assembled in Sydney on October 30 to celebrate some of the most exciting ideas the country has to offer at the fourth annual InnovationAus...
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The inaugural director of the National AI Centre Stela Solar will depart the organisation next week, six months after the government announced that the centre would shift from the...
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A sweeping review of Australia’s faltering research and development system won’t be completed for at least a year, as government and overall R&D investment levels slump to record lows....
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If Australian government, business and defence leaders want another confronting example of 21st century asymmetric capability in innovation ambition and speed of execution, take a look at Chris Power...
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More than 200,000 attempts to use stolen identity credentials legitimately were blocked by the federal government’s anti-fraud register in just seven months — a 66 per cent increase since...
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CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton has ruled out cuts to “research capacity” at the national science agency this financial year as a major restructure of it’s enterprise division continues....
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The Industry department has reopened its investigation of a procurement scandal involving its defunct $484 million innovation program after the matter was passed back to it by federal police...
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The Australian Research Council has awarded $68.1 million in the latest annual round of the Linkage Program to 92 new research projects. ARC acting chief executive Richard Johnson this...
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The Employment department has conceded its automated messages telling jobseekers to work around a government tech issue or risk losing their payments was wrong and has updated the message....
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Social media companies failing to fight scams on their platforms will be subject to fines of up to $50 million under a new framework brought before Parliament on Thursday....