I won’t waste your time. We have 26 years to reach net zero. Let that sink in. What I do want to spend time on is what Rux Energy...
The Capability Papers
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Nuclear energy has been the subject of much recent discussion due on the one hand to Australia’s AUKUS pillar one acquisition of nuclear powered, conventionally armed submarines, and on...
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for a “method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Today these ultra-high-power lasers (UHPLs) have demonstrated many revolutionary technologies that...
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Australia is often called out as a world leader in both research capability and innovative technologies, the beneficiary of decades of investment from our primary industries that make up...
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In mid-2020, after the initial six-week lockdown, people were trying to make sense of what Covid-19 meant for the economy and society. What would we keep? What would return...
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The development of Australia’s innovation capability is connected to the pressing need for environmental sustainability due to global warming, and rising security concerns stemming from reliance on supply chains...
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The world will decarbonise, fast or slow, hell or high water. The hard part of the transition is more difficult than any deliberate undertaking ever previously contemplated. The very...
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The federal Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten will officially launch the 65,000-word, tabloid-sized Capability Papers publication at a special half-day forum and luncheon at Old Parliament House next...
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There is nothing like a pandemic to shine a light on the vulnerabilities and complexities in the global health and medical supply chains. Australia has tremendous capability across the...
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The leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie has warned government against being too prescriptive about which technologies will successfully drive the transition to a net zero...
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The rewriting of the relationship between industrial policy and trade policy is one of the defining challenges of our times, according to the assistant minister for both manufacturing and...
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There is a huge amount of attention being given right now in Australia to accelerating the development of new capabilities in technology areas of strategic importance. InnnovationAus.com has assembled...
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With Australia now set on a path of intensive re-industrialisation and tens of billions of targeted investment dollars being readied for deployment, attention has turned to identifying areas of...
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The first round of headline speakers for The Capability Papers – Non-Kinetic Defence & Dual-Use Tech event in Adelaide on May 24 have been unveiled as Deputy Premier Susan...