Tag: Future Made in Australia

Public industry investment faces more checks

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Future Made in Australia Act will mandate Treasury analysis of private investment barriers to promising sectors to ensure private capital is following taxpayers’ support for industries like green...

Manufacturing shows new life, and lessons for the economy

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Back in 2016, during the time of the Turnbull Government’s Ideas Boom, the CSIRO Futures team, in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre, laid out a vision for...

Govt still searching for its low carbon fuels takeoff

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Local sustainable aviation fuel industry hopefuls will continue waiting for a signal on how the Albanese government will build supply and demand, after a new consultation paper was unresolved...

Our skills black hole is Australia’s next urgent challenge

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
If securing a future made in Australia and becoming a green energy superpower are universally acknowledged as moonshot ambitions, then skilling the Australian workforce to achieving these goals must...

FOAK manufacturing: Australia’s $22.7bn blind spot

Posted on   |  by Camilla Roberts
The federal Budget’s announcement of $22.7 billion for A Future Made in Australia, still leaves us with a valley of death funding gap for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) manufacturing facilities, particularly...

$200m Qld battery precinct yet to power up two years on

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Funding for a Queensland battery precinct promised by the Albanese government ahead of the 2022 federal election is yet to materialise more than two years after it was pledged....

Ombudsman blasts underwhelming procurement response

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The small business ombudsman has lashed an “underwhelming” government response to its procurement inquiry recommendations, after its calls for sweeping changes were quietly batted away. Earlier this month, the...

A future built on politics: Prospect theory vs mission economy

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
For all the pre-budget Future Made in Australia hype; all the predictions that federal Labor would deliver a bold state-led ‘mission economy’ reindustrialisation agenda of the type evangelised by...