Tag: Ivan Power

Dual-Use Forum: Where Defence meets industry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Following the recommendations of last year’s Defence Strategic Review, the Defence Innovation, Science and Technology (IS&T) ecosystem has restructured the way that it engages with industry and how it...

The NRF: An industry champion or a rent seeker’s delight?

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
The appointment of former Macquarie Bank executive Ivan Power as chief executive of the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) was a low-key affair. Relative to the months-long anticipation of who...

Sending a finance guy to fix an industrial problem

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As soon as the Prime Minister was caught on the back-foot during an interview on Radio National about the slow progress in getting the National Reconstruction Fund ready to...