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Breakthrough Victoria is investing $20 million in Victorian company RayGen Resources, with the investment designed to enable the State’s transition towards clean sources of energy.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in Australia—the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

On World Electric Vehicle Day, Victoria can celebrate the fact that it charges people who use EVs a tax. The same Victoria that calls itself the education state. It also touts itself as progressive.

Digital transformation solutions company UST today opened an innovation lab at the University of Melbourne’s Melbourne Connect.

NCS Australia announced the launch of NCS NEXT Cloud Centre of Excellence (CoE) for APAC in Melbourne. The NCS NEXT Cloud CoE will offer governments and businesses greater access to a team of multi-disciplinary, cloud-native practitioners and experienced project managers across the APAC region to support their cloud initiatives based on business needs and industry compliances.

Federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese is set to announce that the party will put in place some modest incentives that would help to push the take-up of electric vehicles in Australia, in the event that it wins the next election.

As the rest of the developed world looks to electric vehicles to help cut their output of greenhouse gases, Australia is firmly in the backseat, looking to the past and attempting to strangle a nascent industry.

A Greens member of the Victorian Parliament has slammed the State Government's move to impose a tax on electric vehicles from July next year, claiming it signalled "a dangerous step towards a privatised road user charge scheme in Victoria".

The Victorian Government will spend $626 million on a Digital Future Now initiative to improve mobile coverage and broadband access in regional areas and supporting businesses by creating new jobs in the process.

In what seems to be a rather strange reversal of roles, the Labor Government in Victoria has announced a tax on electric cars and hybrid plug-in vehicles from July 2021 while a Federal Liberal MP, Trent Zimmerman, has penned an op-ed castigating both Victoria and South Australia for their plans to tax EVs.

British technology and engineering consultancy BJSS has chosen Melbourne as the city where it will set up its first office in Australia as it expands to this region.

Victoria will impose a 2.5 cent per kilometre travelled levy on electric cars used by residents from July 2021, the state Treasurer Tim Pallas has said, adding that the levy for plug-in hybrid vehicles would be 2 cents per kilometre travelled.

Real-time event and risk detection AI platform Dataminr has opened its ANZ headquarters and operations centre in Melbourne as it begins the process of expanding into the region.

Victoria is likely to be the state hardest hit by the National Australia Bank’s plans to cut up to 4000 jobs from its operations nationally over the next three years.