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Correct the AI grants page: closed rounds, stale programs and dead links - #160

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Summary

The AI grants page told visitors a closed grant was open. It also carried a review date of 8 October 2026 that I set in #157 after reviewing only its Queensland section. This PR is the full-page review behind that date. Every program entry and link was checked against official sources on 9 October 2026, then corrected.

Corrected status (closed or pending, previously shown as open or upcoming)

  • ARC Discovery Indigenous 2027: closed on 26 August 2026 after a one-day extension. It was shown as "Now Open (closes 25 August)". Outcomes are not announced yet.
  • CRC Round 27: Stage 2 closed on 17 September 2026, with four applications progressing.
  • CRC-P Round 19: outcomes still pending. business.gov.au says they're "slightly later than originally indicated".
  • MRFF: the 2026 National Critical Research Infrastructure round, including its AI in health stream, is closed. The entry had presented past awards as open funding.
  • NSW Early Adopter: a 2024 round for councils only, now marked closed.

Corrected facts

  • CRC grants: have "no specified limit". The unsupported "$2–5 million" range is gone.
  • South Australia's $28M: it's the Office for AI's public sector program, funded in the 2025–26 budget, not 2024–25. The page now says it isn't a business grant.
  • Fearless Innovator: now the FoundHer Grant Program. Its 2026 round closed on 14 August 2026.
  • ICC: now part of Adelaide University.
  • Victoria: LaunchVic has merged into Innovation Victoria.
  • GovAI Chat (tools page): the beta trial launched on 27 July 2026.

Removed because no source could be found: the AWS "US$230m pool", the NRFC FY26 and 2028 targets, the H2 Ventures Investec facility, the AIML RAIR and CommBank dollar figures, and "safeguarding jobs".

Links:

  • Dead business.gov.au and industry.gov.au links are replaced with ministerial releases.
  • Paywalled news links (The Australian, AdelaideNow) and Wikipedia are replaced with official program pages.
  • Redirected ARC and AIML links are updated.

Review notes

  • Sources: verified against arc.gov.au, business.gov.au (CRC, CRC-P, MRFF), the ARC deadline extension notice, business.sa.gov.au, adelaide.edu.au, govai.gov.au and the program pages. Where only news coverage was available (the SA budget year), the source is named in a TODO.

  • Unchanged: two headings that other pages link to (#south-australia-28-million-ai-initiative-2025-2029 and #queensland-manufacturing-ai-uplift-trial-750000). The FAQ data and the disclaimer and licence are also unchanged.

  • Still TODO:

    • ai.sa.gov.au blocked automated checks, so that link and description need a browser check.
    • The Queensland $10M program's TODO stays, because it hasn't been named or opened.
  • Tools page scope: ai-aus-tools-frameworks.md changes only in its GovAI Chat sentence. The SEO check requires a new last-reviewed date for any content change, so that page's date moves to 2026-10-09 after a check of its time-sensitive claims only, not a full review. Flagged here so the date isn't mistaken for a full review.

  • Evidence:

    • The full local CI sequence passes (heading, strict build, SEO as committed, agent-readiness).
    • Every newly added link returns 200, apart from ai.sa.gov.au (403 to automated checks). AWS's program-specific page is gone, so the entry now links to AWS Startups programs.
  • I used Australian English and checked relevant internal links.

  • I cited authoritative sources for factual or regulatory claims.

  • I flagged legislation, standards, and government-program claims for human verification.

  • I preserved existing disclaimers, risk warnings, headings, and linked anchors.

  • I ran .venv-py312/bin/zensical build --strict.

  • I noted any breaking URL changes or redirects above. (None.)

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ARC Discovery Indigenous 2027 closed 26 August 2026 after a one-day extension;
outcomes not yet announced. CRC Round 27 Stage 2 closed 17 September 2026 with
four applications progressing; outcomes expected early 2027, and CRC grants
have no specified funding limit (the unsupported $2-5 million range is
removed). CRC-P Round 19 outcomes were still pending at 9 October 2026. The
MRFF 2026 National Critical Research Infrastructure round, including its AI in
health stream, is closed. The NSW Early Adopter Grant Program was a 2024
council-only round and is closed. South Australia's $28 million Office for AI
program is public sector funding from the 2025-26 State Budget. Fearless
Innovator is now the FoundHer Grant Program; its 2026 round closed
14 August 2026. Dead or paywalled links are replaced with official sources, and
claims that could not be sourced (AWS US$230m pool, H2 Ventures facility, AIML
dollar figures, NRFC targets) are removed. GovAI Chat's beta trial launched
27 July 2026.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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agent-ptolemy marked this pull request as ready for review October 8, 2026 22:23
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agent-ptolemy marked this pull request as draft October 8, 2026 22:23
The SEO validator compares last-reviewed against the UTC date; the review ran
on the morning of 9 October 2026 in Adelaide, which was still 8 October UTC.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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agent-ptolemy marked this pull request as ready for review October 8, 2026 22:24
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