Australian governments have been discussing innovation, advanced manufacturing, and the vision of making more (and more high-tech things) in Australia… for decades. Yet here we are in 2024, ranked ...

The CSIRO’s chief information officer of nearly nine and a half years, Brendan Dalton, will retired at the end of this year. Mr Dalton, who was also chief information security officer until Jamie ...

Senate crossbenchers that the federal government needs to win over to pass its Future Made in Australia bill are demanding more transparency, emissions assessments and an explicit ban on fossil fuel ...

The federal government expects to lift overall spending on R&D by almost $650 million this financial year, outpacing sluggish R&D spending growth in the private sector, according to new data. The ...

South Australian launch operator Southern Launch will attempt Australia’s first commercial space re-entry early next year at its Koonibba Test Range after receiving clearance from the Australian ...

Every year around the world, more than a third of all food that is produced goes to waste. In Australia, 7.6 million tonnes of food goes to waste every year, costing the economy an estimated $37 ...

The Australian National University’s research and innovation arm will lose more than 10 per cent of staff as part of a major cost-saving restructure designed to cut salary cost by $100 million a year.

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant wants steep fines and mandatory safety by design rules to come from the Albanese government’s review of online safety laws, but says “recalcitrant players” will ...

The NSW government will defer up to $250 million in critical minerals royalties and speed up project assessments in a bid to kickstart the state’s industry amid growing national and global competition ...

Silicon Quantum Computing is poised to launch its first commercial product, a quantum machine learning processor that is already being used by some Australia’s largest companies. As the Sydney-based ...

Digital platform giants claim they would become the “sole arbiters of truth online” if the Albanese government’s misinformation laws pass but are facing strong push back from lawmakers for ducking ...

Australia’s telco sector has only basic measures in place to respond and recover from disruptions like cyber incidents and natural disasters, a new report from the ANU Tech Policy Design Centre ...