Tag: Future Made in Australia

Crossbench MPs seek changes to FMIA bill

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Independent MP Helen Haines met with Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday to try and allay fears there is only a “vague outline” for how tens of billions of dollars...

Greens draw battle lines on Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Future Made in Australia legislation won’t pass until next month at the earliest after the Greens flagged multiple issues with the government’s bills and warned of an “election slush...

Horse trading starts with crossbench to secure FMiA

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Coalition will vote against the government’s Future Made in Australia legislation this week, setting up a Senate showdown and potential amendments to better protect the environment and ensure...

Building process rigour into the Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is threading a needle between bold public investments that establish Australia’s foothold in a churning global economy and what critics say could easily devolve into protectionism...

Ayres on the social promise of Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Forging a modern manufacturing sector with highly skilled jobs will have a “profound social and democratic effect”, the new Future Made in Australia assistant minister has declared. In his...

Apply FMiA national interest test to quantum bet, says PC

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A new national interest framework designed to impose “rigour” on Future Made in Australia investments should be retrospectively applied to the federal government’s $470 million quantum computing bet. That’s...

Cognitive dissonance and the Future Made in Australia

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
In our increasingly complex 21st century world of net zero targets, green energy transitions, fractured geopolitics and technologically-driven systems change, even Realpolitech can accept that the desire for some...

FMiA plan risks industries ‘devoid of Australian invention’

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s budding hydrogen industry will bypass local innovation for its supply chains if content requirements aren’t part of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy, green hydrogen startup Hysata...