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Australian Dairy Nutritionals’ bad news from the US Infant formula manufacturer Australian Dairy Nutritionals has been informed by the US Food and Drug Administration that its application to sell its branded formula in the US has not been accepted. The FDA had previously given the green light to other brands from our region a2 Milk…
By Peter Roberts Australia’s oldest cement manufacturer Adbri has doubled down on its commitment to net zero emissions from producing what are some of the world’s most important, but hard to abate, manufactures – cement and lime. Used in construction and industries such as steel making Adbri’s products are highly carbon intensive, but it would…
Federal and State and Territory Skills and Training Ministers met last week to progress a range of key vocational education and training reform and workforce matters. The Ministers issued a joint statement, below, which sets out their priorities and aspirations for vocational education and training. Skills Ministers’ Priorities Skills Ministers discussed the continued imperative for…
Today in our editorial series on Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Peter Roberts gives an observer’s view of Australian manufacturing over more than four decades, our lost opportunities and where semiconductors could have fitted in. When it comes down to it, the story of disappointment that has been the lack of development of a…
After a long history, during which it has only fairly recently improved past the point where it rapidly induces nausea in a user, virtual reality has begun demonstrating its worth in recent years. You will probably have been to expos and heard about how CAD files can easily be turned into an object in a…
Beginning the second week of our editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Andre Saraiva looks at Australia’s heritage in quantum computing, and suggests that the nation could turn a chip crisis into a quantum opportunity. A stone’s throw away from Bondi and Coogee, silicon-based quantum computing was invented. This was 1998, and…
