Global Defence Solutions has announced that it is preparing to deliver a Zone 4-certified deployable secure container, manufactured at its Nowra facility, to the Australian Defence Force.

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#defence #cybersecurity

Nanomaterials developer and producer First Graphene Ltd. (ASX: FGR) has announced a five-year ANZ distribution agreement with privately-owned industrial products distributor Bisley & Company.

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Today in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort – Elliot Duff identifies the issue as a lack of capability in diffusing knowledge through the economy to its grass roots.

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Researchers from RMIT University University have shown evidence that a new concrete they’ve developed can repurpose twice the amount of coal ash currently used versus current standards, with benefits in performance and lower volumes of cement required.

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Bioelectrical medical device developer Neo-Bionica (founded in 2021 as a JV between University of Melbourne and Bionics Institute) has secured an investment of $5 million from Breakthrough Victoria.

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Building products group CSR has announced a net profit after tax for the financial year ended 31 March 2024 of $240 million, up seven percent on the previous year.

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Assorted reactions to last night's federal budget, featuring Cooperative Research Australia (CRA), Ai Group, Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ACCI), Climate Council, ITECA Independent Tertiary Education Council Aust., Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, Mobin Nomvar, Fortescue, Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), CMEWA and others.

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'While Australia has been slow to catch up, this federal budget will now set the pace for change with a carefully calibrated approach to economic diversification and energy transition' Roy Green tells us.

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#auspol #Budget2024

Manufacturer Sentinel Boats of Hobart have shared that on a visit by the Ukrainian Ambassador they announced that a consignment 830R RHIBs would be sent to Ukraine as part of Australia's $100 million military assistance package.

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.Alpha HPA’s Alpha Sapphire has successfully grown the first ~300kg of synthetic sapphire crystal boules (pictured) in maiden growth runs from the company’s first two sapphire growth units at the facility in Gladstone, Queensland.

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If a plethora of ambitious programmes and many, many billions of dollars are all that it takes to reverse manufacturing’s long term slide, then Jim Chalmers MP' budget 2024 has made a welcome start, writes Peter Roberts

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Across universities globally, Altium is a partner in enhancing the engineering and technical skills necessary for students to meet real-world challenges.

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.Deakin University’s Carbon Nexus research facility – home to what the university says is the world’s biggest open-access carbon fibre pilot line – turns ten this month.

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The federal and South Australian governments are to invest $60 million towards building an Australian Defence Technologies Academy to be developed at Lot Fourteen innovation precinct in Adelaide.

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'Scrapping the levy will pave the way for even more waste to be exported rather than recycled here.We believe there should be exceptions for spent lithium batteries–for several reasons' -Yasir Arafat & Daryoush Habibi, Edith Cowan University (ECU) (via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand)
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.Optiscan has entered into a collaboration through a know-how agreement with Mayo Clinic in the US to develop a digital confocal laser endomicroscopic imaging system for use in robotic surgery.

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.Latrobe Magnesium has commissioned the first phase of its 1,000 tonnes per annum, Stage 1 Demonstration Plant, successfully producing the world’s first environmentally sustainable magnesium oxide (MgO) from fly ash waste.

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The federal government needs to make urgent changes to the financial incentives that support the employment of apprentices and trainees, according to ITECA Independent Tertiary Education Council Aust., the peak body representing skills training providers.

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Monday news briefs, featuring Bosch Australia & New Zealand, IBISWorld Australia, NSW Health, End Food Waste Australia, City of Greater Geelong, Australian Fashion Council (AFC), BlockTexx, Full Circle Fibres, HEO,Hexagon Energy Materials Limited (ASX:HXG), Oceania Marine and more.

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.ReNu Energy Limited subsidiary Countrywide Hydrogen will become “Tasmania’s first major green hydrogen producer”, the state government announced this morning.

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