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...
The extraordinary details that have emerged about the billion-dollar secret procurement of a quantum computer from Californian startup PsiQuantum can only undermine the public’s trust in the federal government...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Assistant Manufacturing minister Tim Ayres has fired back at critics of the Future Made in Australia agenda that seized on a Productivity Commission report casting doubt on nearly $23...
The opportunities in front of Australia for reindustrialisation right now across everything from metals processing to quantum computing “is a train that only leaves the station once,” according to...
In an era where innovation drives economic growth and technological advancement, Australia faces a critical opportunity to enhance its sovereign capability and foster new industries through small business innovation...
The Australian biotech sector is at an “inflection point” and is ready to work with the federal government on its Future Made in Australia plan, and other critical policies,...