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InnovationAus Podcast

InnovationAus Podcast

innovationaus Tech News 100 episodes USA 2026-09-12 13 extractions
James Riley and the InnovationAus team talks to corporate, academic and political leaders about what’s driving the transformation of Australia’s economy toward a 21st Century mindset. InnovationAus is an independent publication that reports on government policy as it affects technology-based innovation across the nation’s growth industries. From mining and agriculture to financial services, MedTech, cyber security and advanced manufacturing. The journalism focuses on the opportunities that align with Australia’s strategic priorities and connects government, institutional researchers, investors, entrepreneurs and the mainstream business community.
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Episodes (100 episodes)

NewsWrap: Friday 11 September - Kevin Rudd's radical plan for national security, economic resilience
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia has become 'The Complacent Country' with Donald Horne's 'Lucky Country' tag now well past its use by date. The episode discusses Mr Rudd's industry poli...
2026-09-12
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Delivery: A GovTech Podcast: AI in cultural institutions - National Gallery CIO Jade Carson
In this episode of Delivery: A GovTech Podcast, National Gallery of Australia chief information officer discusses the role artificial intelligence within cultural institutions, and the guardrails put ...
2026-09-10
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Resilience through Capability - TechnologyOne’s head of security and compliance, Chris Polkinghorne
In this episode of Resilience through Capability, TechnologyOne’s head of security and compliance, Chris Polkinghorne, talks with InnovationAus.com publisher Corrie McLeod about why digital sovereignt...
2026-09-09
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NewsWrap: Friday 4 September 2026 - Missing the tech jobs target by removing the target?
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources hoisted a white flag this week, surrendering its target of growing the number of technology jobs in Australia to 1.3 million by 2030. There is a lot o...
2026-09-06
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Resilience through Capability - ResetData co-founder and co-CEO Marcel Zalloua
Welcome to the first episode of Resilience through Capability, an InnovationAus.com series exploring how Australia can build the industrial and technological capabilities needed to strengthen our econ...
2026-09-03
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The Commercial Disco: Australia's Chief Defence Scientist, Professor Tanya Monro
Anyone at the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit in Adelaide last month will have recognised an increased sense of urgency attached to defence tech development efforts...
2026-09-03
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Big data, national security and cognitive performance: Dr Miah Hammond-Errey, CEO, Strat Futures
In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, national intelligence community veteran Dr Miah Hammond-Errey discusses cognitive performance and resilience optimisation - and the technology platform...
2026-09-01
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NewsWrap: Friday 28 August 2026 - National Cabinet data centre energy imbroglio
The Prime Minister relaxed energy rules for data centres in a compromise to get Queensland and the Northern Territory on board. But within days, miscommunication resulted in a good old-fashioned feder...
2026-08-29
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Delivery: A GovTech Podcast - Hamish Hansford, Head of National Security, Department of Home Affairs
In this episode of Delivery: A GovTech Podcast, the Home Affairs department's Head of National Security Hamish Hansford discusses the importance of technology access and control in the age of AI, and ...
2026-08-27
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Our universities' outsized role in innovation - UNSW vice-chancellor Attila Brungs
Australian universities play an outsized role in the local innovation system compared to international peer economies and should attract a larger portion of system funding, UNSW vice-chancellor Attila...
2026-08-24
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NewsWrap: Friday 21 August 2026 - Andrew Charlton on leveraging data centres to build AI
In a speech that put meat on the bones of government ambitions for Australia to become AI makers rather than takers, Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy Dr Andrew Charlton last week outlined ho...
2026-08-23
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Powering What's Next - Where data centres, demand and decarbonisation collide
Welcome to the latest episode of Powering What’s Next, brought to you by GE Vernova, where we explore the technologies, infrastructure and partnerships shaping Australia’s energy transition and what i...
2026-08-19
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NewsWrap Friday 14 August - Malinauskas takes the wheel on AI
South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas' plan for a Royal Commission into AI puts him at the head of a national conversation about jobs, skills and social licence in Australia's response to artific...
2026-08-15
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The gravity of national challenges: Dr Larry Marshall, ANU Chancellor and Fortescue director
In this episode of the Commercial Disco, ANU interim Chancellor Larry Marshall says entrepreneurial market vision can be a powerful force in aligning the resources of a national innovation ecosystem. ...
2026-08-13
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NewsWrap Friday 7 August 2026: The fight over industry direction heats up
The Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) report was handed to the minister last December. There is a growing intensity to the debate about the direction the government should take on industry polic...
2026-08-08
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AI and productivity: Roy Green on building economic resilience and industrial capacity
Professor Roy Green is a special advisor on innovation at the University of Technology Sydney and a director at CSIRO. He is also an expert on innovation systems, and the policies that drive their suc...
2026-08-05
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Powering What's Next - Net Zero: The fine print
Welcome to the first episode of Powering What’s Next, brought to you by GE Vernova, where we'll explore the technologies, policies and partnerships shaping Australia's energy transition and what it wi...
2026-08-05
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Growth capital for local SMEs - Anthony Healy, CEO, Australian Business Growth Fund
The $540 million Australian Business Growth Fund was set up under the former Coalition government in Canberra in 2020. In this episode of the Commercial Disco podcast, James Riley talks to ABGF chief ...
2026-08-03
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NewsWrap - Friday 31 July 2026: CSIRO chief Doug Hilton on science for industry
It was a big week for Australia's national science agency CSIRO as chief executive Doug Hilton delivered his first address to the National Press Club, outlining an ongoing restructure that aims to sha...
2026-07-31
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NewsWrap - Friday 24 July 2026: Labor conference debates AI future
InnovationAus editor Justin Hendry and senior reporter Joseph Brookes read the tea leaves on AI policy at the Labor national conference in Adelaide, discuss a revamp of a flagship federal startup prog...
2026-07-25
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