The winners of the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory Welding Excellence Awards were announced in Sydney on Thursday night. The awards at Rydges World Square in Sydney celebrated “both businesses and individuals who are making waves in welding through their dedication to quality, safety and innovation” said Geoff Crittenden, CEO of event organiser…
Satellite and space services company Fleet Space Technologies will collaborate with Rio Tinto to advance exploration at its Rincon Lithium Project in Argentina. Leveraging Fleet Space’s AI and satellite enabled exploration solution, ExoSphere, Rio Tinto will develop 3D subsurface maps of the reservoir, basement depth, and brine influencing structures across 100km2 of the project’s salt…
Radiopharmaceutical developer entX Ltd is poised to make a decision to green light construction of a radiopharmaceutical production facility targeting cancer treatment with radioactive isotopes. The facility is supported by a $1.9 million Economic Recovery Fund (ERF) grant from the South Australian Government as well as a $2,915,000 Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) grant announced…
Three innovative Australian SMEs will use the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their medical products and become internationally competitive as part of a new accelerator starting this month. Cortical Dynamics, Microbio, and Resonait Medical Technologies have been selected for the Biomedical AI Sprints Accelerator (BASA) run by leading innovation centres the…
When the Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic revealed the latest budget estimates for R&D he claimed that ‘Gov’t R&D (was) up’. A detailed analysis of the figures by Dr John Howard confirms that government investment in R&D as a proportion of GDP was, in fact, down, with worrying trends also apparent in higher…
By Ross Garnaut, The University of Melbourne Australia now has a government and parliament wanting timely transition to net zero. We have a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as the renewable energy superpower of the zero-carbon world economy. For the time being, we have favourable international settings for using our opportunity. The government…
Clinical trials of its Felix sperm separation device for IVF clinics are now 90 per cent complete, according to reproductive technology specialist Memphasys, with the company also sharing that it now anticipates “entering larger markets earlier than previously expected” following a decision to pursue CE mark registration. In a statement on Thursday, the company told…
The US arm of shipbuilder Austal has celebrated the start of construction for a new manufacturing facility for submarine modules (MMF3) at its shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. This new building, scheduled to be fully operational in late 2026, will significantly increase Austal USA’s capacity to support the U.S. Navy Submarine Industrial Base (SIB). The new…
Completion rates for vocational education and training (VET) qualifications held steady at a high rate according to the latest report released today by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The VET qualification completion rates 2023 report shows that 47.3 percent of all VET qualifications that commenced in 2019 – the year before the…
After decades of sourcing rail cars overseas, the NSW government has re-committed to deciding on a replacement for the first 445 ageing Tangara suburban rail cars in 2025, and commencing procurement in 2026. The government has updated the Project Overview for the Future Fleet Program project page on Gateway by ICN and released an Early…