Revealed: The public service innovators

Bees, tourism and face recognition.

5 September, 2016

NISA: Turnbull’s innovation agenda a reboot for government & industry

Digital Transformation Office to set up ‘Digital Marketplace’.

7 December, 2015

CSIRO swallows NICTA

Government ICT bodies merged as funding cut

31 August, 2015

QLD wants teens to fly emergency robot drones

STEM students put to international skills test.

27 July, 2015

CSIRO releases new research ‘masterplan’

New direction in the wake of funding cuts

23 July, 2015

Science applied to APS industrial action

CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and Environment staff turn-up heat.

16 March, 2015

CSIRO warns of biosecurity ‘megashocks’ amid strained funding

Mega-trends and threats too big to ignore.

26 November, 2014

Robots under remote control orders from the classroom

See Canberra’s highlights by cyborg.

23 October, 2014

CSIRO push for more Aboriginal science and maths students

Closing the gap: engineering, technology, maths and science

2 October, 2014

Go digital or die, Australia’s cultural institutions told

Technological D-Day for galleries, museums, archives and libraries.

18 September, 2014

Robo-choppers spy for weed in Queensland rainforests

Eco-enemies weeded out.

28 August, 2014

Industry fears Abbott government lagging on APS tech reforms

AIIA submission questions progress of policies and promises.

26 August, 2014

Scientists demand proper measurement of CSIRO staff freeze

By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s scientific peak scientific research organisation and its staff association is playing a straight bat to reports that it could be gutted and lose up to a quarter of its staff under public service staff cuts that aim to cull 12,000 positions without redundancies. As a public service hiring freeze enforced by […]

8 November, 2013

Boeing Australia expands local R&D effort

By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation Greg Combet has officially opened a research and development centre in Port Melbourne, Victoria for aerospace company Boeing – the largest facility of its kind for the company outside the United States. The Australian subsidiary of the company which was once headed by former […]

10 May, 2013