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

Doctors operate NBN for an easier diagnosis

By Paul Hemsley Federal Minister for Communications, Senator Stephen Conroy has announced that the federal government will fund nine telehealth projects that will use the National Broadband Network (NBN) to improve telecommunications between doctors and patients. Telehealth is a technological application between medical professionals and patients that allows easier communications between all parties, which has […]

9 May, 2013

Combet moves to measure fugitive CSG

By Julian Bajkowski The Federal Government has moved to start overhauling the way greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere from highly controversial coal seam gas (CSG) sites are measured and reported, a move that could reshape the economics of the financially cheap fuel. Minister for Climate Change, Industry and Innovation, Greg Combet has released a […]

16 April, 2013

Queensland preserves heritage locations in 3D

By Paul Hemsley They say rust never sleeps, but the Queensland government has thrown its weight behind an ambitious project to create lasting digital three-dimensional back-ups of heritage-listed structures and objects to bring a new element of reality to the preservation of historic icons. The lifelike images are made using a new handheld infrared scanner […]

15 April, 2013

Workplace bullying scourge under Fair Work Act spotlight

By Paul Hemsley with Julian Bajkowski Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Bill Shorten has given notice to workplace bullies that he will legislate to have certain kinds of bad behaviour defined in the Fair Work Act in the after tough recommendations from Parliamentary Inquiry about how to control on-the-job aggressors. The proposed crackdown […]

15 February, 2013

CSIRO says tech tools can help in disasters

By Paul Hemsley The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has revealed that emerging technologies such as computer modeling and social media can help governments and emergency services more effectively manage natural disasters like bushfires and floods. In the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy in the United States in October as […]

23 November, 2012