PM Press Club speech to list industrial relations, skills, energy as priorities in recovery
Prime minister Scott Morrison is expected to highlight skills and industrial relations in his National Press Club address today.
Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up
Our internet connections have never been more important to us, nor have they been under such strain. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made remote working, remote socialisation, and online entertainment the norm, we have seen an unprecedented spike in society’s demand for data.
Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
Quantum technology is set to transform electronics, communications, computation, sensing and other fields. In the process it can create new markets, new applications and new jobs in Australia.
New alloy, battery manufacturing development among $35 million grant round
The final round of 2019 ARC Linkage Project grants was on announced on Thursday, with funding for 77 projects, including new manufacturing processes for superalloy components and graphene cathodes for next-generation batteries.
Frigate build site ready to launch $35 billion naval project
Work is almost finished in the $500 million upgrade of Adelaide’s new high-tech frigate shipyard with five new structures rising from its Port River site.
CAE awarded $26 million Hercules simulator project
Systems integrator CAE Australia has earned a $26 million contract to upgrade a C-130J aircraft training simulator and training systems at the Richmond air force base in western Sydney.
Rubber made from waste opens door to sustainable production
A recyclable rubber material made from waste has been developed by a team of researchers spearheaded in South Australia.
The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
Australia won’t be the same post-coronavirus, but parts of the picture are falling into place. One concerns our approach to trade. It’ll be a reset, not a rejection.
Australian manufacturing post-Covid not about complete self-sufficiency, reliving golden era
Today federal industry minister Karen Andrews will discuss local manufacturing’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and what happens next, and is expected to argue for government’s role in procurement of critical supplies and the removal of red tape, but not in promoting “complete self-sufficiency.”
How manufacturers can survive this period of radical change – move into services
Change, a 1985 paper argued, can be characterised as a “punctuated equilibrium”: long periods of relative calm and small incremental alterations that are interrupted by brief, but radical, seismic shifts. COVID-19 means that we are now living through one of those revolutionary moments.