Dongara Marine shows off La Bella Cherie Western Australian shipbuilder Dongara Marine has shown off its latest ship build – the 25 metre long catamaran motor yacht La Bella Cherie (pictured). The vessel, equipped with two guest cabins and a shared bathroom in each hull plus a large, full width owner’s suite with ensuite on…
By Peter Roberts One of Australia’s most respected property developers has put a bold plan to the South Australian government to revive the steel city of Whyalla by building hotels and thousands of new homes to house a massive influx of residents needed to support planned green hydrogen and green steel manufacturing facilities. With the…
By Brent Balinski One criticism from non-fans of plant-based meat is that options tend to come with a sizeable ingredient list, featuring a lot of unnatural-sounding words which might require a chemist or a lot of googling to decipher. Alfred Lo, co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer at ingredient company Harvest B, says that his company…
Thales Australia has been awarded a contract extension by the Department of Defence for an Internet Protocol (IP) based Maritime Tactical Wide Area Network (MTWAN) system. Part of the Royal Australian Navy’s Maritime Communications Modernisation and network centric warfare priorities, the contract was let under the navy’s SEA 1442 Phase 3 programme. Thales’s MTWAN is…
Venture capital investment has slowed this year. But if your company does something that solves a real-world problem and that customers want as a result, then you can still get funded, believes Marten Jurg from Additive Assurance. Jurg’s company announced a $4.1 million raise last week, led by Significant Capital Ventures. AA’s products, which monitor…
Bodd didn’t start out wanting to be a data and insights company, but that’s what they are, among other things. Formerly Tec.Fit, their focus was originally enabling perfectly-fitting suits, designing and making scanners to collect physical data and large format 3D printers to create life-size models of customers out of PLA, saving numerous trips back…
By Nathan Garland, Griffith University and Matthew Hole, Australian National University Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050. To date, developments in fusion power, which potentially ticks all these boxes, have been funded almost…
South Western Sydney home builder Vogue Homes has embraced a newly designed and engineered concrete slab foundation system (pictured) from Biax Foundations that are easier to install and more sustainable. The company began using Biax modules (pictured below) to replace waffle pods that support concrete foundations, allowing more accurate specification of concrete quantities, to provide…
Our current editorial series, Australia’s place in the semiconductor world, has received a greater number of submissions than expected. We have gratefully accepted comment from startups, academics, venture capitalists, former politicians and others. Besides the volume, the (naturally very important) quality of editorial has also exceeded expectations. As a result we are happy to extend…
Drone manufacturer Carbonix has partnered with electricity distributor SA Power Networks and communications group Nokia to utilise long-range Un-Crewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for aerial inspection on remote electricity lines and network assets. In the initial phase of the partnership a Carbonix Volanti UAV (pictured) will be used to prove the Beyond Visual Line of Sight…
