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The battle for a Future Made in Aust within Treasury

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...

Verifiable credentials: Shorten hunts for ‘fool’s gold’

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...

Legal expert flags problems with revised misinformation bill

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...

Shine on: 2024 InnovationAus Awards in pictures

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...

Gig guide: Stela Solar steps down from National AI Centre

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...

Review of ‘rock bottom’ R&D waiting on govt sign-off

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....

Speed to action is key to successful innovation outcomes

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...

Blocked identity theft attempts nearly double

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...

Stay on research job cuts at CSIRO amid restructure

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....

DISR restarts Entrepreneurs’ Program corruption inquiries

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...

$68m in ARC Linkage grants flow to researchers

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...

Dept fumbled messaging as jobseeker glitch slows reporting

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....

$50m fines proposed for social media scam slackers

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....