Tag: Dan Tehan

PM pledges $2b loan facility to critical mineral exporters

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government has committed $2 billion to a new 10-year loan facility for Australian critical minerals projects to help establish more businesses and onshore more of the value...

Australia finally backs COVID-19 vaccine IP waiver

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia will officially back the scrapping of COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rules to assist developing nations in accessing cheaper vaccines following months of campaigning and protests against the federal...

Australian Research Council is ‘hunting spies’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Ministerial vetoes of research grants and a “dossier” of applicants’ potential foreign influence are putting Australian academics’ reputations at risk and threatening the integrity of the national research funding...

Aust presses US for regional digital trade pact

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia is in active discussions with the US to sign a regional digital trade agreement in an effort to re-engage America in the Indo-Pacific region and boost the local...

Australia urged to back vaccine IP waiver

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia has been urged to join the US in fully supporting the scrapping of IP rules around COVID-19 vaccines to assist developing nations’ immunisation efforts, with the federal government...

DTA chief Randall Brugeaud steps aside

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Digital Transformation Agency CEO Randall Brugeaud is set to leave at the end of the month, after three years in the role, with the agency facing a significant funding...

Export market grants reform hits the Parliament

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Funding through the Export Market Development Grants program will be delivered upfront and eligibility for the popular scheme will be tightened under legislation introduced to Parliament this week. The...

Education policy not fit for any age

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
The great English philosopher and satirist John Alexander Smith once addressed the entering class at Oxford with the advice that the sole purpose of an education is to be...

Tech boost for our ‘job-ready graduates’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Technology and engineering university courses will be significantly cheaper under a government plan to funnel students into “job-relevant” degrees in sectors where employment growth is expected. Education Minister Dan...
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