The South Australian government’s $593 million plan to build a hydrogen power station, production facility and storage has received environmental approval from the federal government. The approval, ...

Adelaide-based Southern Launch has secured federal environmental approval to launch rockets near endangered species in South Australia subject to restrictions. Environment minister Tanya Plibersek ...

Australia has a huge opportunity to build a thriving semiconductor industry without spending big on a state-of-the-art chip fab for onshore manufacturing, thanks to its world-class R&D talent pool.

Canberra’s $15 billion tech panel is being routinely exploited by officials, who use it as a veneer of competition when handing hundreds of millions of dollars to their preferred suppliers, a horror ...

The first investments from the Albanese government’s landmark $15 billion manufacturing fund will be revealed within weeks as part of series A or B raises of local startups. The National ...

Investigations have been launched into more than a dozen officials and contractors at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australian Passport Office over its cowboy procurements. The probes ...

Sydney-based counterdrone pioneer DroneShield has taken out the Translation Hero award at the InnovationAus 2024 Awards for Excellence for its successful commercialisation of cutting-edge radio ...

Queensland’s new Premier David Crisafulli has appointed a new Minister for Customer Services and Open Data after scrapping the former government’s Digital Services portfolio. Steve Minnikin was sworn ...

Defence has postponed the cutover to its multi-billion dollar new enterprise resources planning system, further dragging out the mammoth SAP build amid the department’s latest push to eradicate legacy ...

Australia’s tech industry groups are divided on the impact stricter merger laws will have on the incentive to grow innovative startups in Australia and attract venture capital investment. Among the ...

Australia’s biggest medical research funding agency will start gaining independent assurances of grant recipients’ fraud risks and mandate reporting of suspected incidents, following a misconduct ...

A root and branch review of cybersecurity is underway in New South Wales as the state government looks to hone in on the structural issues behind cyber hygiene problems, particularly at smaller, less ...