Tag: Dan Tehan

Australia urged to back vaccine IP waiver

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...

DTA chief Randall Brugeaud steps aside

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Digital Transformation Agency CEO Randall Brugeaud is set to leave at the end of the month, after three years in the role, with the agency facing a significant funding...

Export market grants reform hits the Parliament

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Funding through the Export Market Development Grants program will be delivered upfront and eligibility for the popular scheme will be tightened under legislation introduced to Parliament this week. The...

Education policy not fit for any age

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
The great English philosopher and satirist John Alexander Smith once addressed the entering class at Oxford with the advice that the sole purpose of an education is to be...

Tech boost for our ‘job-ready graduates’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Technology and engineering university courses will be significantly cheaper under a government plan to funnel students into “job-relevant” degrees in sectors where employment growth is expected. Education Minister Dan...

Science and tech council meets again

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s peak advisory body on tech and science has turned its attention to the development of an artificial intelligence ethics framework and lifelong learning of STEM skills. The...

Crackdown puts research at risk

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A potential federal government crackdown on open research and foreign collaboration in Australian universities could have a “cataclysmic” impact of emerging industries like quantum computing, Q-CTRL founder Michael Biercuk...

Research grants to be reviewed

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
A future Shorten Government has promised it will end political interference in the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) grants process. “Bill Shorten has declared that if Labor wins the upcoming...

Funding delays are ‘grossly unfair’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The latest ever announcement of Australian Research Council funding has placed Australia’s innovation system “at risk”, according to the federal Opposition. And industry lobby Science and Technology Australia says...