Federal Labor will create a $1 billion Critical Technologies Fund to invest through loans, equity and guarantees in companies that expand Australian capability in areas like artificial intelligence, robotics...
Labor has unveiled its plan to “kickstart” battery manufacturing in Australia with a $100 million precinct in Queensland, a new Industry Growth Centre and a national strategy. Opposition Leader...
The revamped patent box scheme still doesn’t go far enough and is uncompetitive with comparable jurisdictions, BDO R&D partner Nicola Purser says. The new version of the scheme, announced...
The Morrison government has awarded $601 million in manufacturing grants in the last month alone, twice as much as it awarded in the preceding year and a half. Labor...
The sharing of public sector data will significantly increase after legislation opening up a “new path” for this passed Parliament with bipartisan support on the last possible day before the...
A multi-billion-dollar deal between the Commonwealth, Victorian government and Moderna has been inked, with an mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility to be up and running by 2024. After signing an...
Federal Labor has adopted the Technology Council of Australia’s target of increasing the number of Australians employed in tech-related jobs by 340,000 to 1.2 million by the end of...
The $1.3 billion manufacturing grants program is being used as an “election slush fund” by the federal government, with delays in unlocking funding creating a potential national security risk,...
As industry policy is reconsidered around the world, Australia’s federal Opposition says it’s time to move on from “dogmatic” notions of not picking winners, promising to direct a $15...
Legislation launching a limited patent box scheme for the MedTech and BioTech sectors has been introduced to Parliament, but the government is racing against time to pass the bill...