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Comp heats up over space agency

The competition between states and territories to host the Australian space agency is heating up, despite concerns the rivalries may undermine the agency’s national mission. The federal government recently...

Space agency details revealed

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s national space agency will be up and running from July, but the federal government is yet to decide where it will be based as concerns over its level...

Yet another startup definition

Posted on   |  by James Riley
There are growing calls for the federal government to standardise the way it defines a startup for its grants and support programs, after it announced a new “startup authority”...

Labor’s big fat space promise

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor has unveiled a $35 million policy package to support the burgeoning Australian space sector, with a goal to double the size of the industry in five years....

White flag raised on innovation

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Government has lost its way on the innovation policy and is now saddled with a minister who has given up on launching a new wave of policy reform, federal...

2030 ‘tinkering’ is not enough

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Labor Opposition has reacted to the Innovation and Science Australia 2030 Strategy paper released this week calling it a “piecemeal” plan and slamming the Turnbull government for turning...

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...