Analysis by Peter Roberts Australian science and industry has a surprisingly key role to play in the new more potent defensive stance announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday. Many of the systems envisaged such as hypersonic cruise missiles, directed energy weapons and our own satellites are still in the development phase. However the past…
The manufacturing sector returned to growth after two months of pronounced contraction, according to the Australian Industry Group’s Performance of Manufacturing Index.
Defence has signed a ten-year, $100 million contract with engineering company Qinetiq Australia.
Ellex Medical Lasers will be reborn with the new name of Nova Eye Medical and will develop new opthalmic treatments following the completion of the sale of its opthalmic laser (pictured) and ultrasound businesses. The company told investors it had completed the sale of the businesses, together with the Ellex name, to London’s Lumibird Group…
LBT Innovations Ltd’s APAS Independence machine has been tested on laboratory specimens from 4,603 patients at America’s prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital and passed with a perfect, or perhaps better than perfect, result. The APAS Independence technology uses an algorithm to detect bacterial colonies on laborature culture slides and incorporates computer vision to hasten the time…
Animal feeds producer Ridley Corporation has commissioned its new poultry and pig feedmill at Wellsford near Bendigo in Victoria. All production has been successfully transferred from the former Bendigo mill to Wellsford, with the old site now closed and being readied for sale. The new feedmill has a capacity of 350,000 tonnes a year, with…
Technology developer Silex Systems has successfully completed the first stage of a three-year project to develop production systems to make zero-spin silicon (ZS-Si) for use in silicon quantum computing chips. Silex has demonstrated the production of 99.95 per cent isotopic purity material at the laboratory scale using the company’s Silex laser isotope separation technology. The…
Climate Change think tank Beyond Zero Emissions has released a million jobs plan to reinvigorate the economy through investment in zero emissions industries. The plan was released today by a high level business group of Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian, former chair of Macquarie Bank Kevin McCann, CEO of First State Super and Origin Energy Deanne…
Perth international shipbuilder Austal today announced the delivery of its twelfth Independence class littoral combat ship (LCS) to the US Navy. Built at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, the future USS Oakland (LCS-24) (pictured), is a 127 metre long aluminium trimaran multi-purpose warship. Five additional LCS’s are under various stages of construction at Mobile.…
Recent weeks have seen a renewed focus on supporting Australian made goods. From the industry minister — citing a “groundswell of community support” for locally-produced stuff — downwards, there’s hope consumers and businesses will open their wallets to Australian companies, creating local jobs in the process. Not everybody is certain it will work out…
