The Prime Minister Scott Morrison appears to be wrestling with a way to boost manufacturing despite the Coalition’s traditional antipathy to manufacturing subsidies. A report in Channel 9 media quoted Coalition members at their regular party meeting who called for options to replace manufacturing imprts. Journalist David Crowe, who is very close to the government…
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The US Defence Department is to lodge an investigational new drug (IND) application with the Food and Drug Administration to press on with studies of Immuron’s novel treatment of gut pathogens. The DoD Naval Medical Research Centre (NMRC) has requested a meeting with the FDA for guidance on Phase 2 trials of the Melbourne drug…
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Comment by Peter Roberts Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has extended companies abilities to instantly write off newly purchased assets worth up to $150,000 in an attempt to boost cash flows as the economy recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic. The instant write off applies to businesses turning over up to $500 million a year and will remain…
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Have you seriously considered the implications of the apparent recognition that remote working can, and will, be a greater part of the employment mix in a post corona world? There is a loud noise that ‘everything will change’ reverberating, an echo chamber of that view amplified by digital tools. It seems to me that human…
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Following our successful new deal plan series, @AuManufacturing is crowd sourcing advice from its community on how to reshape the industry through new tools and technologies. The first article in this new series is from Rowan Lamont, who suggests ways to better create products that customers attribute value to.
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Based in Adelaide, South Australia, health technology company LBT Innovations told investors this morning it had completed the sale to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis
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By Grahame Lynch The National Broadband Network has sailed past its FY2020 volume build completion target of 11.5 million premises one month early. However, communications minister Paul Fletcher has been careful not to claim NBN Co is completely finished, noting that it is now “99 per cent built” and that there are still a small…
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Zip Industries is preparing to begin manufacture of Covid-19 point-of-care tests at a site in Collingwood. Brent Balinski spoke to company founder William Hopper about creating domestic capacity for diagnostic tech for this and emerging infectious diseases.
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Townsville in north Queensland has inaugurated the Haughton Pipeline Duplication Project bring to an end a $225 million scheme emphasising local manufacturers to augment the city’s water supplies. RPC Group’s Adelaide factory manufactured the 1.8 metre diameter composite Flowtite GRP pipes which make up a 36.5 kilometre pipeline from the Haughton Pump Station to the…
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By Tim Harcourt Australia won’t be the same post-coronavirus, but parts of the picture are falling into place. One concerns our approach to trade. It’ll be a reset, not a rejection. We will continue to forge strong ties in the Asian Century with members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand…
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