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Alan Finkel on the ISA 2030 plan

Entrepreneurs and scientists share optimism as a common and defining trait and so it is quite likely that Australia’s Chief Scientist Alan Finkel – who has also been a...

AI ethics gets complicated

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Conversations around ethics may have always been complex but it’s about to get a lot more complicated when artificial intelligence (AI) gets thrown into the mix. The nation’s chief...

Finkel floats an ethical AI plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia chief scientist Alan Finkel has proposed an agreed set of ethical standards for artificial intelligence be imposed on companies to protect consumers and the broader economy from nefarious...

More detail on science boost

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has detailed its $2 billion, 12-year national research infrastructure investment plan, marking the “next step of the innovation and science agenda”. The plan is a part...

Saul Singer on the STEM obsession

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry policy-makers had become “too obsessed” with the importance of STEM skills to the jobs of the future and overlooked humanities at their peril, says Saul Singer, the co-author...

NISA has a second birthday

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is two years and several Industry ministers after the Prime Minister unveiled with great fanfare his signature $1.1 billion National Innovation and Science Agenda, and the government is...

Aust AI policy is badly adrift

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Artificial intelligence turbocharged by machine learning techniques gets smarter every second of the day and the Australian government is being prodded to stir its own grey matter on the...

PM’s Science Prize is a winner

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
La Trobe University’s Professor Jenny Graves has become the first woman to be awarded the nation’s most prestigious science award, having scooped the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science, for...

Finkel: Rankings a poor measure

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Reports of Australia falling behind in the global innovation race have been greatly exaggerated, according to chief scientist Alan Finkel. Speaking at the Australian Financial Review’s Innovation Summit, Dr...

Finkel falls short for local startups

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The highly anticipated and controversial Finkel Report “falls short” for local clean energy startups and does them a disservice by skewing in favour of the big incumbents, local innovators...