Tag: Department of Industry

Engineers Australia urges stronger 2030 climate target

Professional association Engineers Australia has backed the federal government’s climate change bills in-principle but argues that the 2030 emissions reduction target could be raised from 43 per cent to 48 per cent with minimal additional effort. In particular, the submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications...

Govt pays BCG $1m for telco supply chain work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay American multinational Boston Consulting Group $125,000 a week to produce reports on Australia’s supply chain resilience around semiconductors and telecommunications equipment over the next...

Interview: Christian Porter on the industry portfolio

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Industry, Science and Technology minister Christian Porter has mapped a layered set of priorities for Australia’s manufacturing-led recovery that preserves existing jobs, plugs supply-chain and capability gaps, and keeps...

Killing growth centres will enable ‘rorts’: Labor

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Labor has accused the government of trying to kill off the Industry Growth Centres to gain control of their grant programs for political purposes as the Opposition ramps up...

Govt dishes out $6m in commercialisation grants

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Four Australian companies have shared in $2.4 million of federal funding in the latest round of commercialisation grants, tipping the 7-year-old program past $260 million in funding offers. A...

Industry dept mulls Growth Centres’ future

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Department of Industry is weighing a 2020 review of its Industry Growth Centres to determine their future, but the program looks set to continue until at least 2024....

Deloitte’s federal work jumps 35% in pandemic

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The value of consulting giant Deloitte’s contracts with the Digital Transformation Agency increased by more than 1,000 percent in 2020 over the previous year, with the company’s overall government...

One third of firms to amend RDTI claims

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Up to a third of all companies accessing the R&D tax incentive may have some of their claim clawed back, with the government still planning to introduce retrospective changes...

Growth Centre review is shelved

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
With the federal government now in caretaker mode ahead of the May poll, the Department of Industry has quietly shelved the public release of its Industry Growth Centres performance...