$2.4 million awarded to seven companies under capability program
A round of Sovereign Industrial Capability Priority grants to seven companies and totalling $2.4 million was announced on Friday.
Defence, Gilmour Space partner on rocket technologies
Gilmour Space Technologies and Defence Science and Technology have announced an agreement to work together, with this potentially leading to dozens of new jobs this year.
Victorian opposition leader: assistance needed to seize “rare opportunity to bring manufacturing back”
Victorian opposition leader Michael O’Brien has proposed that the state regrow its manufacturing sector through a new $1 billion fund. O’Brien said Victoria had lost 50,000 jobs in the industry over the last two decades, and that the Covid-19 pandemic had exposed the weakness of its supply chains. “This is a rare opportunity to bring manufacturing…
Aussie home blood testing kits set for UK and European shores
Trajan’s cutting edge blood sampling technology could soon be helping countries hardest hit by COVID-19.
Lion commits to 100 per cent renewable electricity-powered brewing by 2025
Lion has announced an increase in efforts to become carbon neutral, made public in November, with a goal of 100 per cent renewable energy powering its breweries by 2025, and initiating a “whole brewery” carbon reduction approach throughout the company and its supply chain.
48-hour Trans-Tasman online defence hackathon aims to strengthen sovereign supply chains
An event between the Australian and New Zealand defence forces this weekend, titled #ANZDFhack, will focus on novel solutions aimed at strengthening sovereign capability.
More than 10,000 job losses, billions in lost revenue: coronavirus will hit Australia’s research capacity harder than the GFC
Australia’s researchers have answered the call to help with urgent pandemic clinical trials and other research needs, placing other work on hold. Experts across a broad range of disciplines are crucial to our health, mental health and economic well-being.
CSR full-year profit up, low dollar boosts aluminium
CSR has announced a net profit of $125.3 million for the year ended March 31, though will not pay a final dividend due to the difficult economic environment.
Re-usable nanoparticles the secret to clear white wine
Groundbreaking South Australian research is showing damaging proteins can be more efficiently stripped from white wines to stop clouding.
Australians want industry, and they’d like it green. Steel is the place to start
Australia has an historic opportunity to build a new, export-focused manufacturing sector based on renewable energy.
As a bonus, it could enable a less politically fraught conversation about climate change. Global action on climate change is in Australia’s national interest.