By Peter Roberts Deputy Prime Minister and defence minister Richard Marles has pledged to strengthen Australia’s defence industries and integrate industry more closely with supply chains of our partners in the Aukus pact, the United States and the United Kingdom. Speaking at Centre for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, Marles said a key objective…
Third NASA rocket launches from Arnhem Land Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), operator of the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC) in the Northern Territory has completed its third and final rocket launch with NASA. The NASA DEUCE mission will help astronomers measure an unstudied part of Centauri A and B’s ultraviolet light spectrum, helping them model stars…
German-Australian manufacturer of quantum computing hardware, Quantum Brilliance has announced a collaboration with graphics processing unit (graphics card) manufacturer NVIDIA to accelerate the development of the world’s first hybrid quantum-classical computing platform. Announced today at quantum computing conference Q2B Tokyo, NVIDIA QODA is a new platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing, connecting traditional and quantum computers…
Sydney based fertiliser business Agripower has made headway in a number of key markets in Australia and the middle east as it moves to commercialise its high silica, dry and liquid fertiliser, Agrisilica. Director Peter Prentice wrote to shareholders to tell them of progress in Middle East markets, tests that showed the product promoted carbon…
By Peter Roberts Labor is back in power and that means a return to multi-party summits such as a Jobs and Skills Summit announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese this week for the first and second of September. That will be welcomed by a manufacturing sector struggling with workplace issues ranging from a broken enterprise…
The total number of government-funded students involved in VET courses rose five percent in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The report Government-funded students and courses 2021 found a total of 1,250,100 students were enrolled in government-funded vocational education and training…
Daronmont Technologies has achieved a major milestone in the $1.2 billion upgrade of Australia’s JORN over the horizon defence radar, with the completion of advanced design work for the hundreds of sounders and transponders that enable the strategically important surveillance of the oceans across Australia’s north. Each sounder provides a primary source of return data…
CSIRO will work with two innovative defence SME manufacturers to develop a range of advanced defence protective equipment to protect against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) contaminants. CSIRO has received $8.65 million from the Defence Innovation Hub to develop a single cannister to protect breathing against these threats utilising new materials and technologies. The…
Leading fellows of the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) have called for a rapid deployment of new technologies to decarbonise energy systems. Here, Peter Roberts exposes the industry backdrop to their calls. Australia is in the throes of an energy crisis, with electricity generation prices around 115 per cent above the previous highest average…
Australia is failing to understand the immensity of change underway as the world connects, argues John Sheridan. But Australia has opportunities galore, if only we can harness digitisation to change out economic fortunes. The world is wet. And the sky is a blue circle. A frog in a well has a unique and limited view…