Tag: Roger Cook

WA seeks global partners for defence manufacturing hub

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Western Australia’s government has called for Australian and international companies to help establish a large-scale defence manufacturing hub on the west coast as it pushes ahead with plans to...

WA arms up defence strategy with new statutory body

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Western Australia’s Cook government will introduce legislation to create a new statutory body, evolving Defence West into an independent agency tasked with accelerating growth in the state’s defence industry....

WA government doubles Strategic Industries Fund to $1bn

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Western Australian government will tip another $500 million into the state’s Strategic Industries Fund, deepening its commitment to future industrial projects at several sites across the state. The funding,...

Sharath Sriram named WA’s new chief scientist

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Accomplished nanotech researcher and RMIT University commercialisation leader Sharath Sriram has been named Western Australia’s new chief scientist — its first new top science advisor in more than a...

Innovation dropped from WA public service

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Innovation and science have been excised from the Western Australia public service, with the government dropping the words from the title of a key department as part of a...

Gig Guide: NSW locks in a new privacy commissioner

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales has a new privacy commissioner in Sonia Minutillo, who has led the Information and Privacy Commission NSW’s regulatory functions for the best part of a decade....

WA appoints manufacturing minister in Cabinet reshuffle

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Western Australia’s new-look Cabinet has placed a renewed focus on economic diversification and manufacturing, with two new portfolios led by senior government ministers to be created. Amber-Jade Sanderson, the...

WA’s New Industries Fund in frame for an election top-up

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Western Australian startup lobby StartupWA has welcomed the Cook government’s just launched ‘Made in WA’ industry strategy, in particular the renewal of the state’s New Industries Fund. WA Premier...