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Tess Bennett

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Technology Reporter at Australian Financial Review

Technology reporter for the Australian Financial Review.

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  • Tech Council policy boss Harry Godber stood down after pleading not guilty to domestic violence charges

    2 days ago | afr.com | Tess Bennett

    May 13, 2025 – 8.58am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A key member of the leadership team at the Scott Farquhar-chaired Technology Council of Australia has stood down after being bailed on domestic violence charges.

  • Start-up raises $3.4m to cut cattle burps and fatten them up

    3 days ago | afr.com | Tess Bennett

    May 12, 2025 – 2.49pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A Brisbane start-up that makes probiotics to help cattle put on weight and cut down on the methane they produce through burps and farts has raised $3.4 million from investors, as it takes on firms backed by billionaires Bill Gates and Andrew Forrest.

  • Meet the family trying to give Australia’s space race lift-off from Bowen, Queensland

    4 days ago | afr.com | Tess Bennett

    May 11, 2025 – 3.53pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? It was at the end of CitiBank’s management offsite in Miami in 2011 that two of the investment bank’s managing directors decided to use a spare day before flying back to Singapore to visit the Kennedy Space Centre.

  • Gilmour Space Technologies approved to attempt Eris rocket launch from Bowen spaceport on May 15

    4 days ago | afr.com | Tess Bennett

    May 11, 2025 – 2.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Gilmour Space Technologies, the Australian rocket company hoping to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX, will attempt to launch its first Australian-made rocket into orbit on Thursday morning after receiving the final approval from regulators.

  • Tech champion but with a dark side: Axed Husic speaks

    6 days ago | afr.com | Paul Smith |Tess Bennett

    May 9, 2025 – 5.46pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Ed Husic has vowed to keep advocating for the technology sector from the backbench after he was axed as science minister in a Labor factional power play that some industry heavyweights condemned.

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