Tag: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Public sector R&D spend still flatlining: ABS

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
There was no movement on the amount spent on research and development activity inside government organisations in the first year of the Albanese government when measured as a proportion...

Census tech ‘on track’ as bill tips $30m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The forecast bill for Australia’s 2026 Census has cracked $30 million, with the government to again rely on Amazon Web Services cloud technologies but ditch troubled consultancy PwC for...

Alan Finkel backs Metrics Review changes adopted by the ABS

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
While the former government kept a landmark Innovation Metrics Review secret for years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics quietly implemented one of its key recommendations to better understand how...

Mineral exploration booms to meet energy transition demand

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Mineral exploration expenditure reached the second highest on record in financial year 2021-22, buoyed by record spends on the search for essential materials in the production of electronics and...

Sharp fall in govt spending on R&D over last decade

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Government research and development expenditure fell sharply as a proportion of GDP over the near-decade of Coalition power, leaving Australia behind comparable nations which are increasing their spend, according...

Frosty audit for ABS’ CensusFail

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An Auditor-General’s review of a $313 million business transformation project at the Australian Bureau of Statistics aimed at reducing the risk of system failure has provided insights into the...

Census debacle: Heads roll at IBM

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The two most senior executives running the giant IBM Global Technology Services business in Australia – the service provider behind the 2016 Census debacle – have quietly separated from...

ABS tallies slip in business smarts

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has produced a detailed report quantifying the level of innovation in Australian business. The results are not good. The amount of innovation being undertaken...