Tag: Karen Andrews

Govt opens Moon to Mars space grants

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Local companies looking to get involved with NASA’s Moon to Mars mission will have access to more than $25 million in grants as part of an Australian government effort...

Govt out of touch with small business needs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government decision to lock out most companies from the latest round of its cooperative research funding has “gutted” local firms that had been working on applications and...

Locals ‘shafted’ by CRC cuts and restrictions

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government decision to limit the latest grants round for research collaboration to only one sector has “shafted” hundreds of companies that have been preparing applications for months, with...

Aust-US ties on science and tech bolstered

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
Australia and the United States have moved to strengthened their history of collaboration through a senior-level dialogue on science and frontier technologies led by Industry Minister Karen Andrews. Minister...

Govt seeks input on mass vaccine capability

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has put out a nationwide call to local manufacturers seeking information as part of preparation to produce future vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 at scale. The...

First ventilators arrive in national stockpile

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is a grim happenstance that the first locally made ventilators produced by a consortium of manufacturing and MedTech firms were delivered to the National Medical Stockpile just as...

Australia falls behind on R&D recovery

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia is “in danger of being left behind” as most other developed nations place R&D investment at the centre of their COVID-19 economic recoveries, UTS Innovation Council chair Professor...

Marshall saddles up for three more years

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall was not everyone’s first pick to lead the national science agency when he was appointed to the role in 2015. But the CSIRO board...

PM takes hold of Deregulation Taskforce

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Deregulation Taskforce will be brought under the Prime Minister’s department as the government looks to “modernise” regulations to keep in touch with new technology, with an emphasis on...
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