Climate change a challenge to infrastructure, assets
Governments at all levels are facing mounting costs from a range of climate-related threats to infrastructure and transport, according to a Senate inquiry.
16 August, 2018Governments at all levels are facing mounting costs from a range of climate-related threats to infrastructure and transport, according to a Senate inquiry.
16 August, 2018Rapidly growing flying-fox colonies in urban areas are causing grief for councils across NSW but state support for long-term resettlement of habitats could offer a solution.
7 May, 2018Government agencies are identifying the skills their staff will need to effectively complement emerging technologies that promise to transform service delivery, senior bureaucrats say.
22 March, 2018Australia government-owned research body, CSIRO, says Australia may get an entirely new industry as a result of Australian developed carbon fibre technology. It has announced “Australia’s first entirely home grown carbon fibre,” which it says will enable Australian industry to mass-produce products that use the advanced material, “used in everything from bicycles and tennis rackets […]
8 November, 2017Digital computing started in Australia in 1949, when Trevor Pearcey first switched on his CSIR Mark 1. It was only the fourth computer in the world. Pearcey, an Englishman who had worked on radar during World War II, had designed the machine from scratch and built it largely from surplus war material. It used 1500 […]
2 November, 2017The ANU has announced major expansion to drive societal response to the artificial intelligence revolution.
6 September, 2017Department of Defence staff will get a pay rise after three years of negotiations.
23 June, 2017New American outpost for Australian science.
31 January, 2017Bees, tourism and face recognition.
5 September, 2016Digital Transformation Office to set up ‘Digital Marketplace’.
7 December, 2015Government ICT bodies merged as funding cut
31 August, 2015STEM students put to international skills test.
27 July, 2015New direction in the wake of funding cuts
23 July, 2015CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and Environment staff turn-up heat.
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