Calix joins Future Battery Industries CRC as key participant
Listed Australian technology company Calix (ASX:CXL) has announced it has joined the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBI-CRC) as a key participant.
Chemistry means low-emission steelmaking alternatives remain a challenge: Bluescope boss
Widespread adoption of breakthrough low-emission steelmaking was a “considerable way off,” the CEO of Bluescope has said. According to The Australian Financial Review, Mark Vasella said the steelmaking industry was striving to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and there were alternatives to using fossil fuel-based energy, but the traditional use of carbon required to…
Holden boss departs amid dismal sales
Holden Boss Dave Buttner has departed only 16 months into his tenure in the top job as consumers continue to desert the once top selling local manufacturer. Buttner, a former top executive of Toyota Australia, came out of retirement to create a new image for Holden post-manufacture, but will now be replaced by the sales…
Banning Huawei could cut off our nose to spite our face. Good 5G matters
Productivity growth matters. In advanced economies over the past 15 years it has fallen by half.
Submarine costs spiraling into the stratosphere
Comment by Peter Roberts There is increasing evidence that Australia’s decision to ditch its indigenous experience building the Collins Class submarine and buy a completely new design from France is turning out to be a costly mistake. I have always argued that the best path for Australia would have been to build a modified Collins,…
Australia’s voluntary IoT security code could be enforced
By Stuart Corner of Iot Australia Lawyers have suggested compliance with the voluntary code of practice for suppliers of consumer IoT devices, issued by the Government last month, could be enforced by the ACCC. Home Affairs minister, Peter Dutton released a for-comment draft of the code of practice on November 19 saying it had been…
Major project status for medicinal cannabis
The federal government has granted major project status for the development of new medicinal cannabis facilities in South East Queensland and regional Victoria. Major project status has been granted to Hydroganics for a multi-stage $333 million medicinal cannabis facility in Queensland and Canopy Growth for a $70 million facility in Victoria. Hydroganics is expected to…