The Coalition has made an election pledge to create 1.3 million new jobs over five years if they are returned to government.

BlueScope Steel’s manufacturing precinct in Port Kembla will receive a $55.4 million government investment for a new facility capable of producing plate steel.

The Victoria government is securing 50 million rapid antigen tests a year through a partnership that will see the kits made in the state. …

Aged care workers are set to receive two $400 payments in a bid to recognise the pressure they’re facing as coronavirus cases spiral.

The Trailblazer Universities initiative will focus on defence, space, resources technology, food and beverage, clean energy and medical products.

The Queensland government is due to build and own a resource mineral processing plant in Townsville; the site will process vanadium.

An agreement has been reached with NASA to use Australian equipment to support future missions to Mars.

The federal government has committed $30 million to building a new nuclear medicines manufacturing facility at Lucas Heights in Sydney.

How Australia’s electrical vehicle industry can take a leaf out of the Nordic policy playbook.

CFMEU Manufacturing wants the Victorian government to ‘increase pressure’ on a Bunnings ban on timber from Victorian managed forests. …

Victoria has unveiled a $986 million plan to rollout 25 new energy-efficient trains, with the mostly locally manufactured fleet to start late next year. …

Dr Paul Scully-Power shared his ideas about ‘new space’ new technologies, and new opportunities for people to be involved in the space industry. …

This week, Boston Dynamics (whose dancing robots video I still can’t watch without cracking up) unveiled the newest addition to its robot menagerie. Stretch is the less aesthetically pleasing but highly…