Tag: Critical Technologies

Business Council wants NRF narrowed

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s peak business lobby group wants the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund to support fewer industries and be dedicated to critical technologies as part of an overhaul of industrial...

Productivity Commission doubts battery industry competitiveness

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia is unlikely to have a comparative advantage in exporting locally made batteries according to the Productivity Commission’s latest report, as it warns against adopting the “old-school protectionism” growing...

AUKUS closes gap on China’s critical tech lead

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
AUKUS puts the collective research might of the three allies ahead of China in critical technologies like robotics and quantum sensing, and closes the gap in others, new research...

Husic updates national interest Critical Technologies list

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Industry and Science minister Ed Husic has released a refreshed 2023 ‘List of Critical Technologies’ identifying seven key areas of national interest, after a review found the need for...

Greater restrictions on industrial emissions incoming

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A tighter limit on greenhouse gas emissions and harsher civil penalties are among the proposed safeguard mechanism reforms that Australia’s biggest emitters will face from July 2023. Consultation on...

Review of critical tech list seeks new balance: Husic

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Industry minister Ed Husic says the federal government’s review of the nascent critical technologies list will seek to find a new “middle path” between economic opportunity and national security...

Govt puts national interest technology under review

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has put the nation’s list of critical technologies under review less than a year after the first ever national interest industrial blueprint was published by former...