A new digital portal built for Austrade’s reformed ‘first-come, first-served’ export grants program processed hundreds of submissions for funding within hours of applications opening, frustrating some users. The speed...
Grants awarded under the reformed Export Market Development Grant program will be worth at least $20,000 following the introduction of a minimum value and a shift to a first-come,...
A new eligibility criteria for the federal government’s troubled Export Market Development Grants program came into effect on Friday, conferring additional powers on the Austrade chief executive. The Export...
Austrade plans to reform the popular Export Market Development Grants into a “first-in-first served program” rather than splitting funds across all eligible applicants to boost the value of individual...
Eligibility reforms and payment caps are among the changes to the popular Export Market Development Grant program being considered by the federal government to address long-term structural problems with...
Austrade has been tasked with conducting an operational review into its troubled export market development grants scheme, with a report including potential policy refinements to be handed to the...
The popular export market grants scheme is “broken” and Australian companies have been “abandoned” following revelations none of the cut down grants under the new scheme have been issued...
The government’s popular export grants scheme is now in “disarray” following a series of reforms according to a Liberal Senator, after confirmation that $26 million would be taken from...
The popular and long-running Export Market Development Grant scheme is in crisis, with “disastrous” reforms quietly introduced two days before Christmas “blindsiding” local businesses and leading to the value...