Tag: Minderoo Foundation

Space-based earth observation brings extreme fires into focus

Australia’s fire chiefs anticipate the next generation of space-based fire detection and extinction tools enabled by low-earth orbit satellites may hold the key to mitigating extreme remote wildfires. Extreme bushfires, although rare (only about 3 per cent of all wildfires), are responsible for more than 80 per cent of...

Towards a new mission economy for Australia

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Since last month’s launch of Minderoo’s XPrize Wildfire, a four-year global competition that will award $16 million in prize money to teams able to demonstrate fully autonomous capabilities to...

$16m innovation challenge to build bushfire resilience

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A new $16 million innovation competition co-designed by the Minderoo Foundation has been launched by global not-for-profit XPRIZE to drive development of bushfire detection and rapid response technologies. The...

Dealing with natural disasters needs generational change of focus

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
It’s time for a ‘generational change’ in Australia from focusing on natural disaster response and recovery to preparation and resilience, with economic opportunities also on offer, Minderoo Foundation’s Fire...

Changing the way we deal with natural threats

Posted on   |  by Adrian Turner
Australia is staring down the barrel of threats posed by climate-related natural disasters that – as evidenced by the 2022 floods in NSW and Queensland – we are just...

Generational change: From response to resilience

Posted on   |  by Adrian Turner
Prevention is better than cure: it’s a familiar idiom that expresses a simple truth yet its logic is often ignored. Sometimes the effort required now to address future natural...

Forrest’s Tattarang launches $250m HealthTech VC firm

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia has a brand new HealthTech and BioTech venture capital outfit called Tenmile and backed with $250 million in capital from Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s investment group Tattarang. Based...

Sport, data, and an unspooling privacy problem

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia has a chance to be ahead of the curve and get the settings right to prevent the further invasive collection of data in professional sport, according to Professor...

A new model for innovation: Adrian Turner

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Philanthropic organisations are able to mobilise capital and drive innovation to solve big, thorny problems in a way that governments cannot, according to Adrian Turner, the former CSIRO executive...