By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The government is planning to deliver a second coronavirus economic support package within days, and the Reserve Bank will announce “further policy measures” to support the economy on Thursday. The bank sometimes uses the phrase “policy measures” to describe adjustments to its “policy…
Award-winning electronics business ICT International launched its new production facility in Armidale last week. Brent Balinski spoke to co-founder and CEO Susan Cull about keeping customers in 55 countries happy while operating from “a small country town”.
Analysis by Peter Roberts It was only in February 2019 that the board of industrial scale 3D printing company Titomic decided on a subtle change of direction that is now paying off for the Melbourne-based business. Instead of jostling the dozens of other manufactures of 3D printers for a share of the printer market, it…
Only some river-side cladding work remains to be done on one of the largest buildings ever constructed in Australia – the Outfitting and Ship Erection Hall at the Osborne South shipyard on the banks of the Port River in Adelaide. The hall – 187 metres long, 87.4 metres wide and 50 metres high (main picture,…
Foreign affairs minister Marise Payne has officially laid the keel for the future USS Canberra at a ceremony (pictured) at Austal’s shipyard in Mobile Alabama. The future Canberra, the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship #LCS30, is one of 19 high-speed multi-mission LCS ships being built by the Perth shipbuilder for the USN. The ship is…
An analysis of plastic wastes on Australia’s beaches has found that the ocean itself is now a source of much of the plastic waste on Australia’s beaches. The study by CSIRO found plastic waste in the ocean is making its way back to land where it is trapped by coastal vegetation. This explains why estimates…
The world economy is teetering on a knife edge: the Chinese and Indian economies were slowing even before the COVID-19 Coronavirus, and as Australia was recovering from one of its worst bushfires.
An ambitious international/Australian partnership is seeking to build Australian sovereign industrial capabilities in three key areas of technology to be installed on Australia’s future Attack class submarines. Issartel – HIFraser is calling for manufacturers skilled in high precision machining, boiler making, welding, surface and heat treatment services. The company is a combination of Sydney-based H.I.…
A WA startup announced it had begun manufacture of electric motors last month. Brent Balinski spoke to Michael Fragomeni, founder of HyperPower Technologies.
By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s three-decade run of near continuous economic growth is set to end, with treasury warning of a hit to growth of “at least” 0.5% in the first quarter of this year, potentially followed by a “prolonged downturn”. If it came to pass,…