CSIRO has launched a new robotics innovation centre in Queensland to underpin fast developing robotics and automation industries. CSIRO’s Data61’s 600 square metre facility will help develop what is set to be a $23 billion sector globally by 2025. Data61 said the facility would boast capabilities ranging from legged robots and 3D mapping through to…
Australia’s apprenticeship system continued its freefall in 2018, with bad news in all important statistics reported in the latest National Apprentice and Trainee statistics. The National Centre for Vocational and Educational Research (NCVER) reported that the number of apprentices in training as at 30 September, 2018 had fallen 0.6 per cent form the previous year…
The high cost of gas poses an imminent threat to east coast manufacturers, making them internationally uncompetitive and increasing the likelihood they will wind up or relocate their operations, ACCC Chair Rod Sims said in a speech to the Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference in Sydney last week. Mr Sims called on gas suppliers to…