By Peter Roberts The need for sufficient time to get the construction of nuclear submarines right and a well signposted looming gap as our Collins class submarines reach the end of their lives suggest a son of Collins submarine vessel should be built in Adelaide, according to defence expert Peter Briggs The former president of…
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The COVID-19 pandemic held young Australians back from making their usual transitions into employment according to a new report from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). The study – Treading water: effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth transitions – examined the lived experiences of young people aged about 20 in 2020, and…
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Like countless other items, spiral separators (or concentrators) could be called deceptively simple, both in their function and form. A slurry goes in the top, and the different densities of minerals and sands see each separate on the way to the bottom. “It’s a dead simple shape – it’s really a helical shape with a…
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Four new CNC milling and lathe machines have been installed at South Metropolitan TAFE’s Rockingham campus, which will be used to train defence industry apprentices and post-trade workers. The Western Australian government said on Thursday that the new investment would see users “gain hands-on experience in manufacturing components” and be used to teach programming, setting…
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By Kurtis Eichler With its 2023 launch announced by the South Australian government, here’s a look inside the Kanyini CubeSat. It’s the multi-million-dollar satellite that will collect invaluable data from space once it takes off into the cosmos. But the pieces of the puzzle that make up the $6.5 million CubeSat mission, dubbed Kanyini, have…
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Graphene Manufacturing Group has announced that it will raise $5 million through a “bought deal” unit offering. The Brisbane-based, Toronto Stock Exchange-listed company said on Wednesday that it would sell 1,819,000 of its shares, with Eight Capital the lead underwriter and sole bookrunner, together with a syndicate of underwriters. The price per unit is $2.75,…
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By Peter Roberts One of the criticisms of renewables thrown up by sceptics in the former Coalition government was that it was not dispatchable, that is it couldn’t provide power ‘when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow’. Lithium ion batteries provided an underpowered part of the answer to that but the real…
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Swinburne University’s Aerostructures Innovation Research Hub (AIR Hub) will develop and trial Australia’s first hydrogen propelled drone, thanks to a $1.3 million grant from the federal government’s Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships programme. The university’s Hydrogen to the Skies (H22S) project will design and integrate a new hydrogen propulsion system into a large drone, working with…
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Packaging manufacturer Pact Group has won a major sustainable project award for bringing Australia’s biggest PET plastic recycling facility to life in just 370 days. Pact was awarded the Australian Institute of Project Management’s Sustainable Project Management Achievement Award for NSW for the $50 million Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) PET plastic recycling facility in Albury,…
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Additive manufacturing technology business SPEE3D announced that it conducted a successful hot fire test of its prototype rocket engine in Darwin in September. The company – which sells machines based on a variety of additive manufacturing known as cold spray – said the test was the first in a series of rocket engines and components…
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