Australia’s skills ministers meet – and look to the future of VET

Federal and State and Territory Skills and Training Ministers met last week to progress a range of key vocational education and training reform and workforce matters. The Ministers issued a joint statement, below, which sets out their priorities and aspirations for vocational education and training. Skills Ministers’ Priorities Skills Ministers discussed the continued imperative for…

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Australia’s place in the semiconductor world – chips show everything wrong about our industrial history

Today in our editorial series on Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, Peter Roberts gives an observer’s view of Australian manufacturing over more than four decades, our lost opportunities and where semiconductors could have fitted in. When it comes down to it, the story of disappointment that has been the lack of development of a…

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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 looks at Australia’s heritage in quantum computing, and suggests that the nation could turn a chip crisis into a quantum opportunity. A stone’s throw away from Bondi and Coogee, silicon-based quantum computing was invented. This was 1998, and…

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Best of the week — the five most popular stories among @AuManufacturing’s readers

What were the five biggest stories this week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. AUSTRALIA’S PLACE IN THE SEMICONDUCTOR WORLD: AN INTRODUCTION TO SEMICONDUCTORS On day one of Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, we presented an introduction to the subject, aimed at a reader with no prior knowledge of semiconductors. It was…

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