Vaxxas to begin Covid booster trials in Adelaide this year
Syringe-free vaccination technology company Vaxxas has announced it will recruit participants for a Phase 1 clinical trials combining its delivery patch and a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Albanese pledges Labor focus on tech industry jobs
By James Riley Federal Labor has adopted the Technology Council of Australia’s target of increasing the number of Australians employed in tech-related jobs by 340,000 to 1.2 million by the end of the decade. Labor leader Anthony Albanese will on Thursday unveil plans to work with the tech sector on an industry plan to strengthen…
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ANFF focus on building nanotech manufacturing workforce
Australia is ready to train the workforce necessary to meet the needs of nanotechnology industries, according to analysis conducted by the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) and TAFE SA. The joint research shows that Australia can leverage a foundation of resources and infrastructure to build a nanotech manufacturing workforce with only a few tweaks to…
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Austal suffers setback in the Philippines
Perth international shipbuilder Austal has suffered a rare setback with the Philippines Navy (PN) overlooking the company’s Cebu, Philippines shipyard for the construction of offshore patrol vessels. The company told investors it has been informed by the navy that it would sole-source the purchase of foreign-built OPVs rather than buying Austal vessels built locally. Austal…
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Skykraft opens factory to build 200 satellites
Skykraft has officially opened its new manufacturing facility in the centre of Canberra at the UNSW Canberra City campus. The new facility is enabling the development of the largest ever Australian manufactured space payload, weighing 300kg, which is confirmed for launch this year with SpaceX from Florida. The new facility plans to have produced five…
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Calix low emissions cement technology gets green light
Technology development firm Calix’s lead LEILAC-2 project has passed its financial investment decision and will move on to building a plant capable of capturing 20 per cent of an existing cement plant’s CO2 emissions at low cost. The company, which is commercialising new kiln technology enabling the capture of CO2 in the manufacture of cement…
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Federal government awards Turbine Precinct $33.4 million grant
The Turbine Collaborative Food and Beverage Manufacturing Precinct, an upcoming industry and education hub at Sunshine Coast Airport, has been awarded a $33.4 million grant under the federal government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative collaboration stream.
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Thales deepens DroneShield’s involvement in global supply chains
Drone detection and countermeasure manufacturer DroneShield and French defence contractor Thales have strengthened their global relationship following Thales’ testing of the company’s products. The two companies have collaborated for the past three years under the federal government’s global supply chain programme, with Thales integrating DroneShield sensors into its military and aerospace systems. More recently, DroneShield’s…
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Australian moon rover challenge to get underway
IoT satellite communications manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies will demonstrate the company’s communications modem operating two student-built Moon rovers at an event in Adelaide this week. This is the first time satellite connectivity capability will been demonstrated with a rover as part of Australian efforts to operate a rover on the surface of the Moon. Fleet…
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Australia wants a space industry. So why won’t we pay for the basic research to drive it?
By Phil Bland, Curtin University In the past few years, Australia has formed its own space agency and launched a defence “space command”. Billions of dollars for defence, and hundreds of millions for civilian space, have been allocated from the public purse to develop capability in this growing sector. This funding covers the Moon-to-Mars Program,…
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