Tag: tech

DSO begins bridge building in digital skills training sector

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Government, industry and training representatives have called for a more coordinated approach to tech skills training, as the federally-funded Digital Skills Organisation highlights the need for a common course...

Labor’s Husic to convene tech skills roundtable

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Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic will convene a special tech industry roundtable to decide on urgent action to address growth inhibiting skills shortages across the sector. Mr Husic...

SA space companies unite for defence tech launch

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Four South Australian space companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the launch of a rocket and spacecraft carrying an interfaced electronic warfare payload. ATSpace, Inovor Technologies,...

A celebration of changemakers: TechDiversity Awards 2022

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In a celebration of diversity, equity, and inclusion across the tech sector, #TechDiversity held its annual awards night on Thursday to recognise and pay tribute to the champions of...

ANU puts a spotlight on student tech solutions

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The Australian National University’s Tech Showcase has put a spotlight on innovations being worked on by students, giving them the opportunity to connect with the wider industry. Run as...

Budget addresses skills shortages

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The federal government says its $525.3 million vocational education and training skills package investment delivered as part of the 2019-20 Budget will equip Australians with “better skills”. “We need...

‘Highly disruptive’: Turnbull’s exit

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A new Prime Minister and a significantly different Cabinet would be “highly disruptive” to the government’s tech and innovation-focused agenda and could delay important reforms currently in the works,...

Turnbull on China: Tech’s embrace

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Malcolm Turnbull has delivered a sometimes gushing pro-China speech at the University of NSW in Sydney, just two days after Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asked Julie Bishop during...