Tasmanian heavy vehicle builder Elphinstone has reached an agreement to build 45 armoured turrets and hulls for the Australian army’s next generation artillery system, the AS-9 Huntsman (pictured). Hanwha Defense Australia’s Huntsman mobile howitzers, being manufactured in Geelong, Victoria by in a $1 billion project, will utilise Elphinstone which has been chasing defence work for…
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BAE Systems Australia Maritime has completed the third prototype unit (pictured) for the Hunter Class Frigate Program Osborne Naval Shipyard in Adelaide. The unit, a sizable 232 square meters, 2.9 meters high and weighing over 37 tonnes, has now moved from the shipyard’s primary manufacturing hall on to the next phase of production The unit…
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The Reinforced Earth Company, a civil engineering products business, will establish a new site at Avon Industrial Park, near Northam in Western Australia.
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CSIRO’s SWIRLFLOW industrial mixing technology developed in partnership with Queensland Alumina Limited has marked a 25-year milestone of operations in alumina processing in Australia. Looking like a supercharged stick blender, SWIRLFLOW sits at the top of a mixing tank and generates a tornado-like swirl throughout the fluid, which delivers superior mixing and dispersion of solids…
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By James Reilly The Boston Consulting Group more than doubled revenue from its federal government business in the last financial year as the Commonwealth’s increased use of outside consultants accelerated. For the financial year 2020/21, the first full-year reporting period of the Covid-19 pandemic, Boston Consulting grew its federal business by 120 per cent to…
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Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley has backed the domestic manufacturing of US-developed mRNA vaccines, likening the new capability as a “honeypot” which will have benefits beyond Covid-19 and stimulate the local sector.
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“Productivity needs to improve,” says the RBA, BCA, CEDA, Treasury and the Banks. But that is not the real problem argues John Sheridan The RBA, the BCA, government ministers and others are all back on the bandwagon again – “Australia’s productivity needs to improve before people can expect wage rises”. One of the measures of…
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Ergon Energy has opened a new $6 million energy R&D facility in Cairns, described by the Queensland government as one of the most sophisticated of its kind in the nation.
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A CSIRO team has developed a world-first technique to stabilise vaccines, which are sensitive to heat and must usually be kept refrigerated, which the organisation says could eventually increase the accessibility of life-saving medicines for people in remote communities and developing nations.
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Two recent announcements hint at a seismic shift about to hit Australia’s coal industry.
Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canada’s Brookfield put forward an extraordinary joint bid to takeover AGL Energy, Australia’s biggest emitting company, over the weekend. If successful, it would see AGL’s coal-fired power stations shut down early. And last week, Origin Energy announced that the country’s largest coal plant, Eraring, will close seven years early.
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