The cost to taxpayers of government industry support measures continues to balloon, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest Trade and Assistance Review. And Commissioner Peter Harris has further warned...
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The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has entered into the final design stage, following discussions by the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) Energy Council last week. Energy minister Josh Frydenberg,...
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Venture capital funding has provided a war chest for Canva, allowing it to buy online presentation business Zeetings. The three-year old Sydney based Zeetings boasts BMW, EY, Deloitte, Woolworths,...
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CSIRO chief Larry Marshall has admitted Australia needs to lift its game in the light of a damning report card on patent filing, and has put up CSIRO’s hand...
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The growing influence of AI powered systems on our daily lives has got governments keen to be on top of the AI wave rather than paddling furiously to catch...
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Work to transform the Commonwealth Games Village to form part of a 200-hectare Gold Coast health and knowledge precinct (GCHKP), which has been in development since 2001, has now...
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Creating a single identity for Australians has long been a complex issue with the potential for significant backlash from the public when handled poorly. The attempt at an Australia...
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It’s only two years since the federal government launched its cyber security strategy, but the nation’s former spy chief David Irvine says Australia is well on the way to...
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Australia’s number one generator of intellectual property by patent applications in 2017 was poker machine king Aristocrat Technologies. The gambling technology outfit’s quest to find fresh ways to relieve...
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As Russia gets pinged throughout the western world for going rogue on cyber, Australia’s freshly minted Cyber Ambassador has called for greater international cooperation on punishing malicious cyber activity....
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A newly released Treasury research paper has found that migration has a net positive impact on the economy and leads to increased innovation in businesses. It comes as Innovation...
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When Holden, Ford, Toyota, and Mitsubishi began shuttering their plants permanently in this country, it was an “absolute guillotine” for suppliers such as Geelong-based engineering firm Australian Engineering Solutions...
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The federal government has attacked its own telecommunications ombudsman after its latest report showed that NBN-related complaints had tripled in the last year. Despite the attack on the Telecommunications...
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The clock is ticking for the NSW government if it wants to get some good electoral vibes out of the ambitious TechCentral proposal to turn a chunk of land...