By Peter Roberts Well, it has finally come to this. Manufacturing in Australia really has sunk to a low ebb when this nation blessed with rich agriculture regions can barely make even the most humble of products. I confess to being an occasional eater of baked beans – they must have been something my dear…
Australian businesses could access world-leading battery manufacturing scale-up facilities following an agreement between Powering Australia and the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC). UKBIC is a $250 million battery manufacturing scale-up facility based in Coventry, UK, while Powering Australia is the team behind the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre. Powering Australia was allocated $20.3 million…
By Peter Roberts That federal government’s economic adviser the Productivity Commission has a new spring in its step and new targets of its quest for an economically pure Australia – defence procurement policies and local content rules more generally, especially those applied by the states. The PC’s 50th Trade and Assistance Review (TAR) just released…
By Peter Roberts The Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic has made an impassioned commitment to words all too often forgotten in recent years – value adding and fostering Australian ingenuity. In a speech to the Australian Space Forum Husic said a Future Made in Australia would be defined by resilience, prosperity, and unwavering…
The federal government is fast tracking the development of a Guarantee of Origin scheme which will provide the emissions accounting backbone to support the development of Australia’s green industries. The scheme, a component of the Future Made in Australia programme, will issue digital certificates that allow producers, exporters and users to prove where a product…
Production tax credits that are part of the federal government’s Future Made in Australia legislation package will benefit companies that add value to Australia’s natural resources, according to the Assistant Minister for Manufacturing Senator Tim Ayres. Interviewed on ABC Afternoon Briefing, Senator Ayres said the package, which aims to support $22 billion worth of investment…
The Future Made in Australia is great if you are in one of the chosen new high growth sectors that are its focus. But what of existing, centuries old manufacturing value chains assailed by cheap online retailing? By Allyn Beard. Cheap, imported and mass-produced goods are seemingly taking over Australia, with the likes of online…
The federal and Western Australian governments are jointly investing $70.5 million over five years to establish Australia’s first TAFE Clean Energy Skills National Centre of Excellence in WA. The centre will operate across the WA TAFE network and be a skills leader in clean energy science, engineering, construction, and operation, supporting the net zero transformation…
The federal government has issued $7 billion of its inaugural green bond, in a major milestone aimed at creating a sustainable finance market. The global energy transformation represents a golden opportunity for Australia and this bond is pulling more green capital into financing that opportunity, according to a joint statement from Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Climate…
Channel Nine media has revealed that a group of 70 economists from the nation’s most important universities support the recently announced Future Made in Australia policy. The exclusive story by well respected journalist Shane Wright in the SMH newspaper also puts a rocket up the Productivity Commission which has continued its long standing antipathy to…
