Category: InnovationAus

Tech job redundancies are continuing across the economy, with Accenture, the consulting arm of IBM, and Amazon the latest to confirm cuts. The cuts add to the job losses at other global tech giants this year, including Microsoft, Google, and Meta. Earlier this month, Atlassian also cut 500 jobs

When I interview Paul Levins, he is sitting in Spanish villa-style ranch house in a small community about an hour’s drive north of Austin, Texas, where he has been attending the South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual mega-fest of film, tech, music and culture. Mr Levins is a co-founder

Independent costings of NSW Labor’s election promise to revive domestic rail manufacturing cast doubt on the ambitious plan, finding any actual train buys are so far in the future they are difficult to estimate and a significant investment is needed for a pipeline of facilities, jobs and skills. The

Productivity and competition go hand in hand, so it’s no great surprise that the Productivity Commission’s (PC) five-yearly productivity inquiry doesn’t advocate for increased sovereign capability across the Australian economy. From the PC’s perspective, doing so might upset the international competitive balance that our trading partnerships have helped create.

Improving small business access to government tendering and significantly increasing the number of contracts going to the smaller suppliers would have a neutral impact on the state Budget, according to official election commitment costings revealed this week. Outlined in a costing released on Monday, the finding is an examination

Australia’s national auditor is contemplating a review of the former Morrison government’s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative despite an earlier internal review commissioned by Labor clearing the grant selections. The Department of Industry-run grant program is one of several government programs across multiple departments and agencies in the Australian

Australian rockets and wider launch capabilities would build resilience for the United States’ and Australian space sectors according to NASA’s leaders, who also advocated for government support for developing the space industry. In their address to the National Press Club on Thursday, NASA administrator Senator Bill Nelson and deputy

Consulting giant McKinsey won’t be doing any “core policy work” on Australia’s upcoming cybersecurity strategy, despite being handed a $950,000 contract to manage the project this month. The six week contract from the Department of Home Affairs will pay nearly $20,000 a day to McKinsey, the former employer of

The New South Wales Coalition will siphon money from the state’s already diminished Digital Restart Fund to pay for the technology underpinning its election policies if re-elected on the weekend. Neither the Coalition nor Labor have committed to replenishing the flagship digital investment fund, which has been a significant

Australia’s access to cutting-edge compute capabilities would be restricted if the federal government was to introduce data localisation requirements for certain sensitive datasets, according to Google’s local public policy manager Alex Lynch. Speaking on the United States Studies Centre’s latest ‘Technology and Security’ podcast, Mr Lynch raised the prospect

The experts charged with providing the Prime Minister with advice on technology have been examining artificial intelligence and a potential government response for the last month, with findings expected “shortly” to inform new national policies. Australia’s National Science and Technology Council was last month directed by Industry and Science

Federal Industry minister Ed Husic has dampened expectations of a big pool of new money being attached to the looming National Quantum Strategy, saying the government is taking a longer view of the emerging sector’s needs. It had taken years of patient investment to position Australia to be a