Dutch surveying and geotechnical services company Fugro is partnering with Australian drone manufacturer Carbonix to establish a new Australian long-range drone capability. In what is Fugro’s first partnership working towards long-range Beyond Visual Line of Sight missions (BVLoS), Carbonix will supply Volanti (pictured) and Ottano vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones over the next 27…
The Australian Research Council Discovery Projects scheme is to support research at the University of Southern Queensland ranging from extreme weather-resistant building materials to next-generation advanced composites and fine tuning cybersecurity systems. Australian Research Council (ARC) Chief Executive Officer Judi Zielke PSM announced more than $221 million under its Discovery Projects scheme. UniSQ’s successful initiatives…
Defence has signed an Edinburgh Aerospace Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Enterprise Common Services Deed with Airbus Australia Pacific to create a common workforce for niche trades at RAAF Edinburgh. The Deed will initially create an integrated workforce through a single, common provider for niche trades, with the potential for expansion for additional common services…
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has thrown his weight behind plans to reserve a portion of Australian gas for domestic use following the lead of Western Australia which has had a reservation policy for years which has, in turn, suppressed domestic gas prices. Fresh from an emphatic win in a state election Andrews was asked by…
What were the five biggest stories this week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. AUSTRALIA’S PLACE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR WORLD: SILICON IS QUANTUM, QUANTUM IS SILICON, AND AUSTRALIA MIGHT FINALLY HAVE AN EDGE Beginning the second week of our editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Dr Andre Saraiva looked at Australia’s heritage in…
Australia was the first in the world with a lithium-ion big battery, now North Harbour Clean Energy is promising to build out first big Vanadium Redox Flow Battery. The company, in a joint venture with international battery company CellCube, today announced their first project is to develop the continent’s largest VRFB, which generates 4MW-16MWh. The…
Bubs Australia, which recently stepped in to answer the USA’s infant formula shortage, won the top award at the Australian Export Awards on Thursday night. Eighty-four finalists – all winners at their states’ and territories’ export awards this year – made the nation’s top export awards, held at Parliament House in Canberra. Bubs work to…
Melbourne university’s Professor Danny Samson looks at the cutting edge of AI and Cloud technologies in his new book Business Model Transformation: the AI and Cloud Revolution. Through case studies he shows the business strategy and performance benefits are not just available for large, listed companies, but can be embraced by Australia’s SMEs through proactive…
Australia’s wine industry is a world leader because of innovation with the FOMENT Accelerator Program formalising and modernising that tradition through its wine, viti and tourism programme scheduled to kick off in February 2023. While innovations such as the wine cask and screw cap have come from individual companies or industry researchers, FORMENT is focused…
To conclude the second week of Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, we speak to Emeritus Professor Bob Clark about some policy proposals for establishing semiconductor production here, and why this strange era demands we rethink our hands-off approach to the market. By Brent Balinski. Do we display a lack of ambition in what we…
