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Communities hit by natural disasters will get support from a new national agency tasked with helping them rebuild and recover.

Fifty Perth-based companies and organisations - including education institutions, numerous local startups and not for profits and mining giants have been announced as finalists for the INCITE Awards - WA’s longest running ICT Awards program.

Perth’s Pawsey Supercomputer is supporting scientific research into quantum computing and will soon process data from the world’s biggest telescope.

Government intervention in energy markets has grown in recent years, with winners chosen potentially at the expense of consumers.

Construction has begun approved for the SKA-Low telescope in the Mid West.

WA’s mining industry is renowned for its technical innovations, but key industry players believe far more could be achieved.

It is not just startups that innovate to grow.

A Perth research institute focused on battery industries has signed up a consortium of companies, government agencies and universities to build a cathode precursor production pilot plant.

A $7 million state of the art drill research facility in Perth and a partnership with CRC ORE have been unveiled by Australia’s national science agency in a nod of support for mining research.

It's hoped construction of a $3 billion, globally significant space research project in the Murchison region will start mid-year, as negotiations with Traditional Custodians for a land use agreement continue.

When it comes to predicting the industries that will drive the global economy in the next decade and beyond, there is one simple rule.

A collaboration among WA's leading research bodies will be created as part of a $25 million investment into growing agricultural research and development in the state.

Shares in gold technology company Chrysos Corporation have crashed on their first day of trade, down 36 per cent from their issue price.

Construction has begun on a $68 million antenna at the European Space Agency’s New Norcia tracking site, a project tipped to strengthen the agency’s relationship with Australia.

The Wajarri Yamaji community has voted to approve a land use agreement to build the world’s largest radio telescope in the Murchison, a big step towards starting construction.

The largest survey of airborne electromagnetic data has been collected across Western Australia to help unlock its resource potential and aid in the hunt for rare earth materials.

Construction is expected to start this year on the WA segment of the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, which was today given a traditional name from the Wajarri Yamaji people.

Perth-based tech startup ULUU has raised $8.6 million to develop and distribute its plastic alternative made from seaweed.

Limitless: WA could become a globally significant supercomputing hub on the back of the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array development.

Australians should be under no illusion about nuclear energy’s shortcomings.

Industry, government and financiers need to invest more than $20 billion per year for the Australian economy to expand without dangerous levels of pollution.

As criticism of the government’s energy market intervention settles, Madeleine King is focused on pushing Australian resources to the fore of the global energy transition.

Tambourah Metals has partnered with the nation’s science agency to develop exploration activities at its lithium project in the Pilbara.

Juniors have thrived in the search for future-facing commodities, while investment in coal suggests that sector won’t go quietly.

Flooding in the Kimberley has affected the community and highlighted the argument for freight network resilience.

Nine industrial zones to "carpool" emissions and give gas a long-term role in the economy have been mapped by the industry with help from CSIRO scientists.

Still paying the reputational price for blowing up sacred caves, Rio Tinto has told a global mining forum it is driving cultural change across the business.

A report mapping Australia’s emerging ‘Silicon Valleys’ has found Perth ranks well below four digital technology clusters on the east coast for both jobs and investment.

MMA Offshore has been selected by CSIRO to manage a research vessel in a contract anticipated to generate $80 million in revenue over four years.

Pursuing net zero carbon targets and implementing sustainability strategies are the environment sector’s chief goals.

CSIRO has committed $20 million to its small business programs, including Kick-Start, which helped Perth startup Uluu launch its first product this year with Quiksilver.

A South Australian mining tech firm revolutionising the centuries-old method of assaying gold is working to bed down its foothold in the global gold industry.

A future federal Coalition government would build a nuclear reactor in Collie at the site of the town’s ailing coal power plant.

The Mamutjitji Story app represents opportunities to combine Indigenous cultural knowledge and technology.

Fremantle-based SeaStock, a carbon abatement company that farms seaweed at a unique land-based production facility, has signed its first commercial supply contract.

A bioplastics innovation hub aimed at placing Western Australia at the forefront of the national war on plastic has been unveiled at Murdoch University, in partnership with the CSIRO.

A western suburbs research precinct will be turned into WA’s biomedical hub in a move the state government hopes will enable more local manufacturing

Critical minerals are seen as vital to the energy transition although mining induced environmental impacts remain a key concern of the public, according to CSIRO.

A partnership between Nufarm and the CSIRO has achieved a breakthrough in the production of plant oils, providing higher yields in hopes it can be used as fuel without impacting food security.

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