Australia has invited the world’s best drug supply companies to set up a local manufacturing hub, with hopes the technology could also produce cancer treatments.
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Plans to build a new Australian vaccine facility will be launched on Friday in a call for bids that puts global companies like CSL and Moderna in the running to develop a stronger domestic capacity against viruses.
Companies will have the next eight weeks to prepare their plans to manufacture vaccines in Australia based on the messenger RNA science underpinning products from Pfizer and Moderna.
Moderna is in the box seat to pitch mRNA vaccine production facilities in Australia.
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Industry Minister Christian Porter is expected to launch the “approach to market” with a proposal to back the development from a $1.5 billion manufacturing fund.
Albanese promises $10 billion fund to cut housing costs for workers
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Labor has promised a $10 billion fund to cut housing costs for workers in a response to the federal budget that seeks to galvanise voter concerns about soaring house prices and rising rents.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese also pledged more incentives for employers to hire 10,000 apprentices in fields like renewable energy, accusing the federal government of doing too little to help younger Australians.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has promised to create a $10 billion fund to pay for new housing.
He also challenged Prime Minister Scott Morrison to do more to protect women from sexual harassment, saying a Labor government would pass laws to place a âpositive dutyâ on employers to eliminate sex discrimination, harassment and victimisation.
Mr Albanese put the new policies at the heart of a budget reply speech that slammed this weekâs federal budget for failing Australians and shifting blame to the states on the response to the pandemic.
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âYou deserve a government worthy of your efforts,â Mr Albanese said in a promise to voters that a Labor government would act on falls in real wages.