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More than half of all tech workers in Australia are situated in one of 96 digital technology clusters scattered across the country, according to a new report from the CSIRO and the Tech Council of Australia. The 96 clusters, located in all eight states and territories, also accounted for 62…

Generative AI could add $45 billion to the Australian economy by 2030 even when based on a scenario of ‘slow adoption’, according to a new report by the Australian Technology Council and Microsoft.Around 70 per cent of the additional value-add is expected to come from productivity gains by workers, with…

Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder has warned that Australia should not accept growing cyber threats as the cost of doing business online, saying that greater investment in the local cybersecurity industry should be incentivised. Ms Pounder made the call to action to boost cyber resilience during her…

Australia will need 1.2 million tech workers by 2030 but is not training enough and already facing a shortfall, Tech Council CEO Kate Pounder warns.

Australia’s $15 billion reconstruction fund should focus on “long-term, strategically important investments” in critical technologies that inherently carry higher risk, according to the country’s newest technology industry group. In a submission to the Industry department consultation, the Tech Council of Australia broadly welcomed the yet to be developed National Reconstruction…

Western Australia’s 10-year innovation strategy has been welcomed by local tech and startup groups, but work remains to ensure it is backed by sufficient funding and supporting initiatives in the state budget next May.It was applauded as an important first step in focusing ongoing initiatives and alignment under the state’s…

The federal government laid the foundations for its tech jobs push in Tuesday’s budget but industry and science groups want more detail and have criticised a $4 million cut to a women’s reskilling program. Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down Labor’s first budget in nearly a decade on Tuesday night, emphasising…

Challenges generally bring out the best in Australians. Floods, bushfires, drought and even a global pandemic show that our society is adept at standing together to find a way of working through whatever is thrown at us. COVID in particular showed what is possible when communities, governments and institutions work…

China’s state-owned Northern Rare Earths provides the “perfect case study” on how to scale production across the battery value chain, according to Lynas Rare Earths chief executive and managing director Amanda Lacaze. Ms Lacaze was speaking on a panel at the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) on…