Manufacturing workers on Friday said Australia “cannot risk” a Coalition government after the opposition promised to unwind mostly popular policy work and cut billions in legislated incentives for new...
Advanced Manufacturing
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The federal government’s $15 billion manufacturing fund could be stripped by a Dutton government, which would use around $14.5 billion from its unspent allocation for Coalition priorities. As the...
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A vast new defence and aerospace precinct has been proposed for the outskirts of Adelaide, as the South Australian government looks to attract more defence industry investment. A 400...
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A Wollongong firm developing materials for use in extreme environments like air travel and nuclear waste disposal will receive $1.5 million from the federal government’s scaleup program to expand...
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Two local quantum computing startups have secured contracts with US defence research agency DARPA for a coveted benchmarking program designed to find the companies capable of achieving utility-scale within...
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The National Reconstruction Fund Corporation has ploughed $15 million of fresh capital into Canberra-based quantum outfit QuintessenceLabs as the dominant lead investor in a $20 million round. QuintessenceLabs founder...
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TSMC said on Monday that its newly built domestic fab would add 7,000 tech jobs to the island’s economy and that it will continue to expand in Taiwan, following...
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Australia will follow the United States and set up a new office dedicated to selling sovereign defence capabilities, including high-tech combat drones and radar technology, to international security partners....
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Australia’s equity stake in PsiQuantum could represent as much as a third of the Californian startup’s latest capital raise, which values the company at twice what it was worth...
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Anduril president Christian Brose said the AI-powered defence startup – whose founder Palmer Luckey left Facebook over his early support of Donald Trump – has good “vibes” about the...
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Nine European Union countries are working together to accelerate plans to boost the bloc’s computer chip industry and aim to present their proposals within months, one of the coalition’s...
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Australia’s only silicon manufacturer has received an almost $40 million grant from the federal government, securing local supply of the key input for solar panels and semiconductors. Simcoa secured...
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The federal government will try and kickstart Australia’s large-scale green hydrogen sector with up to $814 million in production credits for a clean energy mega project 500 kilometres north...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says radar technology that Canada has agreed to purchase from Australia is “world-leading” and will help forge closer ties between the two countries amid growing...