Tag: Kim Carr

Labor: $1b fund for manufacturers

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor will create a $1 billion fund to help innovative manufacturing firms transition into high value production and “build for the future” if it wins the next federal election....

Final frontier has a new agency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia will finally get a national space agency to coordinate local efforts in the sector and gain a chunk of the $400 billion global industry, the federal government has...

Is gov’t space review redundant?

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...

Manufacturing is not lost: Carr

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Veteran Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr went full polemic on the advantages of Australia retaining its manufacturing capability in a speech this week, hitting out at the free market...

Kim Carr on the revolving door

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The Coalition’s latest industry minister might talk tough about the power of the free market but political reality and the rise of populist parties like One Nation will soon...

Carr rump proves hard to move

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s self-described ‘Dream Team’ of an expanded Shadow Ministry is a mixed bag for the tech industry. The elevation of Jim Chalmers to Finance and Michelle...

Innovation policy missing in action

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...

Why Bill Shorten won’t get elected

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Bill Shorten and his team have a spring in their step and feel they have a whiff of a chance of rolling the Turnbull Government at the coming election....

Alston backs Data61’s Turner

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With its creation last Friday heralded ingloriously by a “taking out the trash” ministerial statement, Data61 was the best outcome among many unappealing alternatives, according to NICTA board member...