Tag: Melissa Price

$2m Defence innovation review dead and buried

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A $2 million review of Australia’s defence innovation system looks unlikely to ever be released after the former Coalition government sat on it for five months and the Department...

Composites manufacturing CRC stumped up with $70 million

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A sovereign manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre focusing on automation for composites will be established with just under $70 million in funding as part of a Coalition election campaign pitch....

Science and Industry leadership roles emptied by Coalition

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
While the pre-election period saw a flurry of controversial appointments to plum jobs in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, numerous government-appointed leadership roles in Australia’s innovation and technology system have...

Defence innovation review gathers dust as money flows

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government on Thursday announced nine new Defence Innovation Hub contracts together worth $19 million for companies developing technologies ranging from advanced radar and cameras to cheap “swarming”...

National Space Mission a huge budget win for the sector

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The funding horizon on the freshly minted National Space Mission might stretch into the future, but Australian Space Agency chief Enrico Palermo is declaring a massive budget win for...

Gilmour secures federal funding for $157m space facilities

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
A consortium known as the Australian Space Manufacturing Network and led by Gilmour Space Technologies has secured $52 million in federal funding to manufacture launch vehicles and satellites and...