By Grahame Lynch The federal government will today announce an ambitious plan to make point-to-point fibre-on-demand services available to 700,000 businesses across 240 zones, including 85 in regional Australia. The government estimates this will reach 90 per cent of Australian businesses. The plan will also see Enterprise Ethernet products offered to regional businesses at Zone…
Emeritus Professor Roy Green says Australia must rise to the challenge of managing its transition to a more dynamic, knowledge-based economy. Here Green argues that to do this, we must reverse the benign neglect of our research and higher education sectors.
Australian Manufacturing Forum member Peter Angelico (pictured below) explains why his ABECK Group, a supplier to infrastructure, construction and manufacturing companies, has onshored manufacture of steel gratings previously imported from overseas. As the Covid pandemic continues to wreak havoc in the Australian economy, ordering from an overseas supplier comes with increased risk. There are minimum…
Australian retailers are adopting data-rich 2DBarcodes supplied by non-profit group GS1 Australia to replace traditional barcodes which utilise only Variable Measure Numbers (VMN). Woolworths has adopted the content-rich codes on fresh foods beginning with meat and poultry, providing information on product batch and lot numbers, serial numbers, best before dates, use-by dates, pack dates and…
Chemistry Australia CEO Samantha Read has hit back at statements suggesting lower gas pricing will only have a modest impact on local employment. Read said contrary to claims by the Grattan Institute that only 4,000 to 5,000 jobs on the east coast are in gas-dependent companies, the use of natural gas by the chemistry and…
Only a week after South Australia became the first state to ban the use of single-use plastics, one supermarket has already eliminated them entirely from its stores. SA environment minister David Speirs announced that Foodland Pasadena and Frewville had become the first supermarkets in Australia to replace single-use plastic produce bags with new BioBags. He…
Pantry stacking during the Covid-19 pandemic played a part in food technology company Clover Corporation delivering a 23.6 per cent lift to profits in the 2020 financial year. The company, which supplies microencapsulation technology enabling tuna, fish, fungal and algal oils to be added to infant formula, foods and beverages, reported net profit after tax…
Comment by Peter Roberts A DART rocket just launched from Koonibba Rocket Range in South Australia carrying a Defence satellite marked a return to the days in the 1960s when Australia was a nation capable of launching a payload from its own shores. At just 3.4 metres long and weighing 34 kilograms, the DART rocket…
Thales welcomes changes to defence capability scheme Thales Australia has welcomed what it calls the strengthening of Defence’s Australian Industry Capability Programme and the review of Australian Standard for Defence Contracting. The company, which spent $522 million with Australian firms in 2019, said there was strong evidence in support of the Government’s policy of requiring…
The federal government has handed over a new Guardian-class Patrol Boat to the Republic of Palau as part of Australia’s engagement with neighbouring Pacific Island nations. The vessel, PSS President HI Remeliik II, was received by Palauan Commanding Officer Lieutenant Commander Emerson Nobuo at a COVID-safe ceremony in Henderson, Western Australia where the ship was…