By Bruce Mountain, Victoria University If future historians pick a point in time when Australia comprehensively turned its back on coal-fired generation, they may well point to AGL’s decision to bring forward the closure of Loy Yang A, the cheapest (excluding emission costs) power generator in the energy market spanning eastern Australia. AGL announced on…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series, Land Forces 2022, looks at some uses of cold spray additive manufacturing in an interview with Titomic’s Dominic Parsonson. Satellite radiation shielding. Gun barrel manufacturing. Ballistic protection. Pressure vessels. To speak to Dominic Parsonson, Head of Sales at Titomic, is to hear a person discernibly excited about the potential –…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series Land Forces 2022 turns to the AUKUS agreement and the new focus on collaboration it has spawned. Here, Michael McLean explains how a grass roots industry board that he chairs, is bringing together leading industry advisors and management consultants from New Zealand, UK and USA to collaborate and support AUKUS.…
Today in our special editorial series Land Forces 2022, we turn to the key role of the companies and institutions that make up the defence industry sector in supporting national security. Here Andrew Gresham looks at defence industry as an instrument of national power. To understand the Australian defence industry’s role as an instrument of…
By Kurtis Eichler Learn, build, reiterate. That was the mantra Raj Gautam, founder and chief executive of start-up company QL Space, learned when he took part in the Venture Catalyst Space program. Gautam launched his start-up less than a year ago and is developing a multi-sensor remote sensing satellite for the space industry and mining sectors.…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series Land Forces 2022 looks at a model for collaboration between defence industry companies and public sector researchers. Peter Roberts reports on work underway at Thales Australia’s Lithgow Arms business in NSW. The statistics show that Australian manufacturers and business leaders are among the worst in the developed world at collaborating…
Today our special editorial series Land Forces 2022 asks the question of the moment – what are the lessons Australia can draw from Russia’s largely land war against Ukraine? Gregor Ferguson reports. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the gift that keeps on giving for defence analysts. The Russians have committed just about every cardinal sin…
Today @AuManufacturing’s special editorial series Land Forces 2022 celebrates one of Australian defence industry’s most recent successes – the R400 remote weapon station (RWS) from Electro Optic Systems. Today is Day one of Land Forces 2022, and we can’t think of a better way to whet your appetite for the systems on display than a…
Today @AuManufacturing launches its special editorial series Land Forces 2022 with a major interview with Defence Industry Minister, Pat Conroy. Here Peter Roberts surveys the lay of the Australian land. As delegates gather in Brisbane this week for Land forces 2022, the top of mind issue for Defence and defence industry is the conflict in…
Today we launch our special editorial series Land Forces 2022 with a look at the policies of the new federal government guiding Defence’s relationship with industry. In his first major interview, Pat Conroy, Minister for Defence Industry and Minister for international development & the Pacific, talks with Peter Roberts. Question: The coalition government from 2016…
