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Supporting economic growth and job creation for all Australians.
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Australia, Canberra
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1001-5000
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$407.75K
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| Sep 30, 2026 | Sicona urges faster funding for onshore battery plants to keep up with the UK & US | Christiaan Jordaan, Founder and CEO of Sicona Battery Technologies Christiaan Jordaan, Founder and CEO of Sicona Battery Technology The opportunity in front of us is to move at the same speed the UK and the US are moving, and to back the pr... |
| Sep 21, 2026 | Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 21, 2026: Bain Capital Ventures, Dream Ventures, Morgan Stanley & More | Venture money today is moving down the technology stack and out into the physical world. The largest financings in the past 12 hours aren’t dominated by another crop of thin AI application layers. They are going into weather modification, a... |
| Sep 14, 2026 | The Safeguard Mechanism, explained | The Safeguard Mechanism is one of Australia’s most important policies for improving economic security by reducing carbon emissions. It covers a range of industries including mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, transport and waste. What is t... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Australian Leach Patent Doubles Heavy Rare Earth Recovery Where Acid Chemistry Fails | By Scott McCain Published: Aug 19 2026, 9:08 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Quantum Australia reveals $83.1M economic impact and 15 new quantum companies | Petra Andrén, CEO of Quantum Australia with Japanese gov. delegation Group shot of 6 new ventures from Quantum Australia NextQ program Quantum Australia exists to connect researchers, entrepreneurs, industry, endusers, investors and gover... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | AI Agent Governance Frameworks All Assume One Owner; Australia’s AISI Maps Gap None Covers | By Mark Rutherford Published: Aug 10 2026, 3:04 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Sharon AI Books $373M Deal and Discloses $8.8B in Contracts as AI Factory Hits 91% | By Joshua Mitchell Published: Aug 06 2026, 3:05 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Japan’s Quantum Stack Opens to Australia as Fujitsu, Monash, and CSIRO Sign MoU | By Terrence Hill Published: Aug 04 2026, 2:48 PM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jul 21, 2026 | LANDCROS and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at Center of Queensland Mining | By Terrence Hill Published: Jul 21 2026, 11:00 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Microsoft expands AI footprint in Australia with $18 billion investment | Under Microsoft’s “largest ever” investment in Australia, the tech giant is set to partner with Canberra on initiatives spanning cybersecurity, workforce upskilling, and AI development. The new investment builds on a previous A$5 billion co... |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cultivated Pet Food, Khloe Kardashian & Nutella Peanut | 6 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers cultivated pet food’s Singapore debut, Khloe Kardashian’s new plant protein chips, and a host of dairy-free brand... |
| Mar 24, 2026 | TASMANIA HOLDS THE KEY TO AUSTRALIA’S HELIUM SOVEREIGNTY | Peak Purity of up to 4.83 % and 16 times more concentrated than standard global sources. It’s pretty simple: you can’t have a high-tech nation if you don't invest in the ingredients. We’ve got deposits in Tasmania that are 16 times the glob... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Rogue Pet: Magic Valley Debuts Australia’s First Cultivated Meat for Dogs | 6 Mins Read Australian startup Magic Valley has launched Rogue Pet, a brand of cultivated meat treats for dogs, to generate early revenue. The first drop of products has sold out within a week. As it advances its cultivated pork platform fo... |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Smart Logistics Starts With Smart Weighing | Share Share Share Share Email Logistics performance is usually discussed in terms of routing software, warehouse automation, and last-mile optimization. But one of the most overlooked drivers of efficiency sits at the foundation of every sh... |
| Oct 10, 2025 | Odoo AI Launch and Australia’s Next SME Productivity Leap | At Experience 2025, the company unveiled its new AI App, embedding artificial intelligence directly into ERP workflows. This positions Odoo within the global wave of ERP vendors operationalising AI, but its relevance is sharper in Australia... |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Seven things Australia can do today to meet its new climate goal | The federal government on Thursday announced a 2035 emissions reduction target of 62-70 per cent below 2005 levels. Importantly, it also released a net zero plan and blueprints for six major economic sectors. The target signals Australia is... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Australia’s Resource Earnings Face a Rocky Road Ahead | Australia’s resource sector is bracing for a storm. A recent government report paints a bleak picture for the country’s mining and energy export earnings. The forecast is clear: trade risks loom large, and commodity prices are on a downward... |
| Jun 29, 2025 | Trade risks to keep shrinking Australia's resources earnings, report says | Trade risks to keep shrinking Australia's resources earnings, report says By Renju JoseJune 29, 20258:59 PM UTCUpdated ago Text Small Text Medium Text Large Text Share X Facebook Linkedin Email Link A self-driving dump truck collects iron o... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | What R&D Tax Incentives Can You Claim? A Complete Guide | Share Share Share Share Email For innovative Australian businesses, the R&D Tax Incentive can significantly reduce the cost of research and development activities. Yet, many companies either underclaim or miss out entirely due to confus... |
| Feb 17, 2025 | Boosting R&D Could Lift Australia’s GDP by 3%, Report Finds | Australia is missing out on billions in economic growth due to underinvestment in research and development, a new report warns. The country’s gross domestic product could be increased by 3% if decision-makers focus on boosting investment in... |
| Dec 22, 2024 | Australia’s Digital Renaissance: Cloud Computing and AI on the Rise | Australia stands at the precipice of a digital revolution. The winds of change are blowing through its economy, driven by cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies are not just buzzwords; they are the lifeblood of... |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Australia Unveils National AI Plan to Boost Investment and Capabilities | Australia has announced plans to develop a national AI strategy to strengthen its AI capabilities and attract investment, aiming to unlock the economic productivity potential of these technologies. The strategy will focus on building AI ski... |
| Nov 17, 2024 | Australia’s Tech Investment Dilemma: A Call to Action | Australia stands at a crossroads. The nation’s businesses are urged to ramp up technology investments. A recent report from the Tech Council of Australia highlights a pressing need for change. The stakes are high. If Australia fails to incr... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Australian Businesses Urged to Invest More in Tech Adoption | A new report by the Tech Council of Australia concluded that Australia’s large, mid-sized, and start-up businesses must increase spending on technology adoption to contribute to an economy-wide push to grow overall tech investment levels an... |
| Nov 1, 2024 | Australian Companies Shift Tech Spend Focus from Innovation to Growth | The 2024 Datacom Annual Cloud Report, produced in collaboration with analyst firm Tech Research Asia, highlights some significant shifts in how Australian companies are approaching technology investments. Faced with economic uncertainties a... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Proximity welcomes Felicity Cooper and Elise Poiner as Expert Advisor | Government consultancy firm Proximity has appointed Felicity Cooper and Elise Poiner as Expert Advisor. A senior government lawyer and advisor, Felicity Cooper brings around 20 years of experience working with and for the public sector. She... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | Space Machines Company Partners with Ananth Technologies and Digantara to Advance Space MAITRI Mission The Space MAITRI (Mission for Australia-India's Technology, Research, and Innovation) mission is slated for 2026, with the Optimus satellite scheduled to launch aboard NewSpace India Limited's ... | Space Machines Company, an Australian-Indian in-space servicing firm, has announced two significant partnerships with industry leaders Ananth Technologies and Digantara. These collaborations, revealed during the Bengaluru Space Expo (BSX) 2... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Australia Proposes Mandatory Guardrails for AI | The requirement to test AI models, keep humans in the loop, and give people the right to challenge automated decisions made by AI are just some of the 10 mandatory guardrails proposed by the Australian government as ways to minimise AI risk... |
| Aug 30, 2024 | Unpacking Australia’s $1 Billion Bet On a Future World-Class Quantum Computer | Earlier this year, Australia agreed to invest nearly AUD $1 billion in U.S.-based quantum start-up PsiQuantum in an effort to become the first country to own a commercial-scale quantum computer. The technology is expected to be operational ... |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Why Meta should be lauded for choosing ‘open-source’ AI | In the world of artificial intelligence, a battle is under way. On one side are companies that believe in keeping the datasets and algorithms behind their advanced software private and confidential. On the other are companies that believe i... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Exclusive: SpaceX in talks to land and recover Starship rocket off Australia's coast | SpaceExclusive: SpaceX in talks to land and recover Starship rocket off Australia's coast By Joey RouletteJuly 29, 20245:14 PM UTCUpdated ago Text Small Text Medium Text Large Text Share X Facebook Linkedin Email Link SpaceX Starship passes... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | CSIRO launches Virga supercomputer with Dell Technologies | Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new high-performance computing facility named Virga. Built in collaboration with Dell Technologies, this system is set to replace the previous generation machine, Bracewell. The new... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Инженерные практики разработки LLM-приложений | Разработка LLM-приложений включает в себя гораздо больше, чем просто промпт-дизайн или промпт-инжиниринг. В этой статье мы рассмотрим набор инженерных практик, которые помогли нам быстро и надёжно создать прототип LLM-приложения в рамках од... |
| May 30, 2024 | Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas | Our own calculations show that successive governments have kept increasing their projections for how much carbon they believe the land use sector is storing. That’s happened every year since 2018. If you keep changing how big a carbon sink ... |
| May 28, 2024 | Husic’s $17 million AI déjà vu: Similar program, smaller budget | Australian Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch article-article-body At The Australian Financial Review‘s AI summit on Tuesday, Science Minister Ed Husic “announced” a $17 million dollar AI adoption program f... |
| May 28, 2024 | Future Made in Australia will create jobs but it doesn’t go far enough | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body The shift towards net zero emissions and greater international competition have created new opportunities for clean energy industries – poised to shape the global economy in the coming decades. To ha... |
| May 27, 2024 | Australia’s domestic manufacturing gets a $523.2 million boost with Battery Breakthrough | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body Australia has a new National Battery Strategy, unveiled last week as a key part of the government’s Future Made in Australia agenda. The vision is for this country to be making batteries with secure... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Indonesia’s Nickel Supremacy: China’s Backing and Australia’s Decline | Australia is no longer competitive in the nickel market, largely due to Indonesia’s recent domination in the sector. This domination strategy has been carefully planned by Indonesia as it looks to boost its downstream industrial policy in c... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | IBM’s Matthew Candy Sees Evidence of Innovation in Australia’s 2024 Pursuit of Generative AI Scale | Australian organisations are keeping pace with global innovation in generative AI, according to IBM Consulting Global Head of Generative AI Matthew Candy. A local legislative focus on regulating high-risk use cases could also foster AI’s po... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | EU AI Act: Australian IT Pros Need to Prepare for AI Regulation | The most recent (and likely final) version of the impending European Union’s AI Act was recently leaked. This is the world’s first comprehensive law designed to regulate the use and application of artificial intelligence, and history shows ... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Canberra steps into the AI arena without a policy framework | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body A partnership with Microsoft will trial the use of AI within the Australian Public Service, even while safety policies are still being developed. The Australian Public Service will become one of the ... |
| Dec 28, 2023 | Why Australia is ripe for VC | Over the past couple of decades, Australia, an island continent of 26 million that became rich by, among other things, mining natural resources, has developed into a modern powerhouse that actively works to foster a dynamic tech and startup... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Cicada x Tech23 launches research revealing proven solutions to Australia's "deep tech scaleup problem" | Systems approach key to "Australia's deep tech scaleup problem" Partnerships (62 percent) almost equal to funding (67 percent) as a deep tech growth tool Universities & research institutions most helpful for partnerships and I... |
| Nov 28, 2023 | Why Labor’s $392 million Industry Growth Program sounds familiar | Industry and Science Minister Ed Husic. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas. article-article-body The Albanese government has officially launched its $392 million Industry Growth Program, which is aimed at aiding startups and SMEs in their commercialis... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | “Completely useless”: Boosting Female Founders program continues to hold back startups | Image: SmartCompany article-article-body It’s been 18 months since applications opened for the third round of the Boosting Female Founders (BFF) grant program. During that time up to 700 applicants were sitting on matched funds — waiting to... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | ATO urges accountants to double-check R&D tax incentive claims | article-article-body The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is urging accountants and consultants to review their clients’ Research & Development (R&D) Tax Incentive claims, after identifying potentially costly errors in claims made u... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Workplace Diversity in Australia: What Can Australian IT Do to Inspire Better Diversity? | Australia is in a position where it could have a highly diverse IT sector across all lines — gender, sexuality, ethnicity, physical ability and age. Currently, however, it has struggled to convert its significantly diverse culture into dive... |
| Sep 28, 2023 | Cicada Innovations appoints Dr Katherine Woodthorpe as Chair, progressing diversity in STEM and deep tech | SYDNEY, Sept. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's flagship deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations has appointed Dr Katherine Woodthorpe AO FTSE FAICD as its new Chair, resulting in one of Australia's flagship and longest-standing deep tech... |
| Sep 28, 2023 | Australians Rate AI Applications based on Trust, Friendliness, and Diversity | The emerging trends related to AI in Australia reveal the nation’s persistence in commercializing AI applications for better growth and prosperity. Australia is one of the fastest-growing AI innovation centers in the world. The rise of gene... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | Australia Plans to Send Robotic Rover to the Moon on NASA Artemis Mission | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 06 September 2023, 04:09 am Australia is set to embark on a historic lunar mission, with plans to send a robotic rover to the moon as part of NASA's Artemis program. The Australian Space Agency has announced its i... |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Quantum Computing: Australia’s Next Great Tech Challenge & Opportunity | Image: Damian Sobczyk/Adobe Stock While so much of the civilian world is focused on determining the impact of AI on our lives, at a government and, particularly, defense level, there is an entirely different fixation: quantum computing. Qua... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | NAB sets sights on high schoolers for STEM | NAB is ready to commence its first work experience program with high school students this June under an effort to attract fresh interest in working with financial technology. The bank is seeking to draw in students to areas across cyber sec... |
| Jun 13, 2023 | The Australian AI governance debate starts to heat up | Image: stnazkul/Adobe Stock A lack of properly defined artificial intelligence governance and policy is causing bipartisan concern in Australian politics, with both major parties recently speaking out about the need to move urgently on the ... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | From infinite recycling to bat-like vision for blind people: Cicada Innovations announces the Tech23 startups | SYDNEY, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's flagship deep tech incubator Cicada Innovations has announced its first cohort of deep tech founders chosen to showcase their world-changing innovations at Australia's longest-running annual ... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Gov starts to consider Australian AI regulation | The government has called for views on how it can support the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. Interested parties have until late July to submit assessments on the best methods for tackling growing AI capabilities and wh... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Austrália estuda proibir IAs de deepfake e conteúdos que simulam realidade | A Austrália anunciou que deve restringir a utilização em larga escala de Inteligência artificial, ainda pensa em encerrar por completo IAs que simulam a realidade com imagens ou falas, como os deepfakes. A medida foi justificada pela preocu... |
| May 3, 2023 | Government unveils its first quantum strategy | The federal government has set a strategic ‘North Star’ for the continued development of quantum technology in Australia, with the promise of reviews of the current state of affairs and future investment. Minister for industry and science E... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Gelion (AIM:GELN) acquires IP for "world's best battery"; calls for National Battery Strategy to lead with Aussie tech and manufacturing | SYDNEY, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Global renewable energy storage innovator Gelion (AIM:GELN) has acquired the intellectual property for lithium-silicon-sulfur (LiSiS) battery technology from the University of Sydney, in its bid to buil... |
| Mar 9, 2023 | Tech entrepreneur amongst stellar cohort in latest Women in Leadership Development (WILD) Program, which is expanding with new Federal investment | One of Australia’s most promising tech entrepreneurs joins a stellar cohort partaking in this year’s Women in Leadership Development (WILD) Program, which starts in Melbourne this week. |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Australian LNG exporter ships a rare cargo to Europe as buyers rush to secure alternatives to Russian supplies | Australian energy company Woodside delivered an LNG cargo to Europe amid an energy crisis. A cargo of 75,000 tonnes of natural gas arrived for German utility Uniper on Sunday. Advertisement Europe just received a shipment of liquefied natur... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | New expert group established to advise government on transitioning to a circular economy | Dr Cathy Foley, Australia's Chief Scientist. Source: supplied. A new expert group will help advise the government on transitioning the nation to a circular economy by 2030. It will consider products across all sectors that are designed and ... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Latest data shows Victoria is leading Australia in economic growth while NSW is in last place | Source: Daniel Pockett / AAP The latest figures on the economic performance of Australia’s states and territories show Victoria leading the nation and New South Wales falling to last place. The annual gross state product accounts from the A... |
| Nov 11, 2022 | The Tech Council of Australia says the industry has a diversity problem and more job investment is needed | You need to bridge the gap between formal education and job description. Source: thisisengineering/Unsplash A Tech Council of Australia representative has said the organisation wants to see more investment in skilled migration, mid-career t... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | After its $197 million cut the Entrepreneurs’ Programme will be assessed again for the next budget | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas The controversial Entrepreneurs Programme will be re-assessed again ahead of the next budget, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISER) has confirmed with SmartCompany. The Ent... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | What’s in the Federal Budget for startups? | Dr Chalmers delivered his first budget on Tuesday night. Image - Parliament House, Canberra. Labor has just announced the October 2022 federal budget, and many in the tech sector have mixed emotions about the points made. Treasurer Jim Chal... |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Budget 2022: $100 million for critical minerals strategy to boost clean energy innovation | On Friday the Albanese government will announce that $50.5 million of the federal budget will be allocated to a new national critical minerals strategy to help bolster Australia’s clean energy production, with a further $50 million to be al... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | Australia Passes Law for Net Zero Emissions by 2050 | 43% reduction target by 2030 is 50% more aggressive than the previous administration’s Government financing agencies will be required to consider emissions targets in funding decisions “Enshrining a policy in legislation gives businesses an... |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Yes, there’s a ‘skills shortage’. Here are 3 jobs summit ideas to start fixing it right away | Ahead of Thursday’s jobs and skills summit, Pi-Shen Seet from Edith Cowan University and Janice Jones from Flinders University present three ways to fill the immediate skills shortage that don’t rely on migration. On Thursday, union, busine... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | How encouraging more women into agtech can better feed Australia’s population | Source: Zoe scheffer/unsplash. Australia’s agriculture sector is facing a workforce crisis. At all levels, there is a shortage of workers, with CEDA’s recent Economic and Political Outlook 2022 identifying record job vacancies and job ads i... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Official audit finds shortcomings in entrepreneurs’ grants program | Secretary of the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources David Fredericks. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) An entrepreneurs’ program run by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) has been critiqued by the aud... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | Labor urged to carry out crypto regulation to protect the million Australians holding digital assets | Source: Shutterstock. If you spend any time among the cryptocurrency community you’ll come across the mantra “HODL”. Originally a typo for “hold” on a bitcoin forum, it has become all-purpose advice to anyone looking at the day’s price fluc... |
| May 6, 2022 | Whoever wins the election needs to fix Australia’s manufacturing sector. Here’s how they can do it | Source: Unsplash/Science in HD. Most politicians vocally support Australian-made products. Manufacturing certainly provides excellent opportunities for candidates in high-vis to make election campaign announcements. Labor has promised to ma... |
| May 2, 2022 | Australia can still become a world leader in climate action | Cora Poniwerski is head of marketing and communications at Carbon Count, a management platform for soil carbon projects based in Sydney, Australia. The views expressed in this guest commentary are the author’s own and do not necessarily rep... |
| Apr 5, 2022 | Government plans $44 million for new AI centres to increase jobs and skills for SMEs | Minister for Science and Technology Melissa Price. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas The government will stump up $44 million for four new artificial intelligence (AI) and digital capability centres in the hope that commercialising the research will ... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Aussie astronaut to go to space as government announces $65 million funding | Fleet Space, Centauri 3 launching into orbit on Tuesday 23 March. Photo: Rocket Lab The federal government has told the national space agency to embark on a mission to send an Aussie astronaut into space, and also announced $65 million more... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | Westpac Banking : 27/01/2022 Westpac supports Plenti to fund electric vehicles in Australia | 27 January 2022 Westpac is proud to announce the completion of a A$250m structured auto facility to fund electric vehicles and related features such as recharge equipment for consumer fintech lender, Plenti. Established in 2014, Plenti is a... |
| Jan 27, 2022 | ATSE’s $41 million program to provide 500 STEM scholarships for women | The new government-funded program providing 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to help women in STEM re-enter the workforce, seek higher qualifications and develop senior leadership skills, will be provided by the Australian Ac... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Fossil fuel exports are set to hit a record $380 billion in revenue, according to a new report | Surging prices for Australian coal and LNG will deliver almost $400 billion worth of resource exports. The government’s Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources said in a quarterly update exports are expected to hit a record hi... |
| Dec 9, 2021 | Amazon делает умный дом ещё умнее, NVIDIA копирует голоса людей, а весь мир разрабатывает этику ИИ | Осенний дайджест главных новостей и исследований из мира голоса и разговорных технологий: от Meta, Amazon, Яндекса, Spotify и других компаний. Подготовлен на основе телеграм-канала Hey Voice! команды TORTU. 0 Обсудить 289 просмотров Это пят... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Sydney-based quantum sensing startup Q-CTRL raises $25M Series B led by Airbus Ventures | Q-CTRL, a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ven... |
| Nov 19, 2021 | Australia, US agree to protect sensitive quantum tech, share knowledge | Australia and the United States have formally agreed to collaborate on quantum technology, pledging to share knowledge, protect sensitive technologies and boost industry opportunities. The two nations signed a statement of intent on Friday,... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | Weekly Wrap #72: Booming startups save (and take over) the world | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the ANZ technology and startup world. If you love the Weekly Wrap, please spread the word and help it grow: Forward this to friends/colleagu... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Australia should chase stronger 2030 climate targets or risk tariffs and lost investment, institutional investors warn | James Gourley, Getty Images Institutional investors and asset consultants have welcomed Australia’s commitment to hit net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But the technology-heavy plan could be damaged by the nation’s 2030 emission re... |
| Sep 30, 2021 | Morrison backs ‘new energy economy’ with $2b billion fund | Trade Minister Dan Tehan. Source: AAP/James Ross. Scott Morrison will establish a loan facility to support Australia’s critical minerals sector in a bid to tap into what he says is one of the world’s largest recoverable reserves of the mine... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | Meat the future: Unpacking Australia’s protein potential | Mirjana Prica is managing director at the Food and Agribusiness Growth Center (FIAL), an industry-led, government-funded initiative to accelerate commercially-driven collaboration and innovation in the Australian agrifood sector. The views ... |
| Sep 21, 2021 | Digital technologies are the future, so why is Australia so far behind? | Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas. Digital technologies are now at the heart of our everyday lives, as anyone who has swapped their office for a video-conferencing screen, or downloaded a contact-tracing app, knows only... |
| Sep 14, 2021 | BHP : Notice of Meeting 2021 (Form 6-K) | BHP Group Limited Notice of Meeting 2021 We are BHP, Our Purpose Our purpose is to bring people and a leading resources together to build a better world. Our Values global Putting Sustainability health and safety first, being resources envi... |
| Aug 26, 2021 | “The time is now”: VCs have the power to shape Australia’s economic future | Mike Zimmerman (front row, centre) and the Main Sequence Ventures team. Source: supplied. Australia’s economy is at an inflection point after weathering what has hopefully been the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the private and public s... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Max Q: Launch industry low-down | Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Mondays in your inbox. Another public launch company is coming soon, while a still-private launch had to push off their planned first flight ... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Australian Government Grants $4.1M to 2 Blockchain Pilot Projects | The Australian government is doling out $4.1 million in grants for two blockchain-based pilot projects to study the capability of blockchain technology in supply chain systems. Prime Minister Scott Morrison's government says the research wi... |
| Jul 12, 2021 | NAB pilots facial recognition for identity verification | NAB has piloted the same facial recognition technology as Westpac to allow consumers to verify their identity via a smartphone. The bank revealed to iTnews that it tested the service supplied by Sydney-headquartered OCR Labs. iTnews reveale... |
| Jun 23, 2021 | Government launches artificial intelligence action plan | Former Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Christian Porter. Source: AAP/Richard Wainwright The federal government has unveiled its first action plan dedicated to establishing Australia as a global leader in developing and adopti... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Australia drops in global competitiveness ranking, improves only in economic performance | Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison wearing a face mask. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch With Australia having slipped four rungs on the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, which compares the performance of 64 different nations, CEDA’s ch... |
| Jun 22, 2021 | Top economists back government measures to boost uptake of electric cars | Source: Unsplash/Michael Fousert Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly back government measures to speed the transition to electric cars in order to meet emission reduction targets. An exclusive poll of 62 of Australia’s preeminent econ... |
| Jun 1, 2021 | STEM Equity Monitor shows slight improvement in women representation, but more needs to be done | Source: That Startup Photo Library. Since 2018, the Australian government has used several strategies, tools and initiatives to improve the gender balance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The 2018-19 budget outlin... |
| May 31, 2021 | Government action and breaking legal barriers key to making patent system more accessible to SMEs, report finds | Australian small businesses are put off from participating in the patents system because of a lack of information and government outreach, and fear of steep litigation costs, a new report has found. The independent Patents Accessibility Rev... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Indigenous businesses: The economic power, strength and diversity among an overlooked sector | Artist Rachael Sarra in a post on the Shameless podcast Instagram page. Source: @shamelesspodcast on Instagram. Annually, Indigenous businesses in Australia bring in a total of at least $A4.9 billion — well over the revenue of the entirety ... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Get Ready: The Hydrogen Economy Is On Its Way | Co-founder and CEO of HyPoint, the company developing zero-carbon emission hydrogen fuel cell systems for aviation and urban air mobility. |
| Jan 19, 2021 | Survey reveals which government agencies pay small business suppliers on time | Source: Pexels/Oleg Magni. Federal government agencies are getting better at paying their suppliers on time, according to survey results released by the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources on Monday. The Pay On-Time Survey... |
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