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Ed Husic

December 2024

Fiona Wood spearheaded the creation of Avita Medical’s spray-on skin in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Time to reverse the R&D slide

I encourage everyone with an interest in our long-term prosperity to engage with the review of the system so we get the best possible recommendations.

May 2024

Industry Minister Ed Husic at the Summit.

Corporate tax reform needs to be on the table, says Husic

This is an edited and abridged transcript of a speech followed by a question and answer session given by Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic at The Australian Financial Review AI Summit. 

September 2023

Consumers, human rights groups and members of the public support explicit new AI laws.

AI can help nation be more productive

Opinions are divided on regulating artificial intelligence’s growth and management. But we will need new laws to build trust and harness productivity gains.

June 2023

Ed Husic

It’s too easy to forget AI can be used for good

Our government knows that getting a fit-for-purpose framework in place for the safe use of AI technologies will deliver huge economic and social dividends.

May 2021

The government has spent the run-up to the budget talking up its digital economy ideas.

All (tech) talk, no walk at budget time

At the heart of Coalition innovation policy is a yawning absence of enduring commitment to the vital role these sectors will play in Australia’s future.

September 2020

Malcolm Turnbull led the Coalition's mocking of a full fibre broadband network, insisting that copper could do the job for a lot longer than has happened.

Conrovia here we come, time to look forward after NBN backflip

Imagine how the wasted $12.5 billion of the Coalition version of the NBN could have been invested, if the party had not been beholden to the hard right.

November 2019

Labor MP Ed Husic says the government's AI roadmap will be all talk without funding.

Without funding the government's AI plan is too little too late

The Morrison government must massively lift national AI investment if its plans to harness the benefits of this technology are ever to eventuate.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/ed-husic-p4yvn3