Joint media release with Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton
The Morrison Government is getting more Aussies into jobs and lifting the nation’s cyber security capability, with a $26.5 million program opening today.
The Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund will provide grants of between $250,000 and $3 million to improve the quality and availability of cyber security professionals through training.
Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the funding would help build cyber security career pathways as Australia continues its comeback from COVID-19.
“The Cyber Security Skills Partnership Innovation Fund will support partnerships between industry, education providers and governments to build the next generation of cyber security experts,” Minister Andrews said.
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Aussie-made rocket fuel lifts-off
Australia’s space industry is continuing to take off under the Morrison Government, with the launch of the first rocket powered by Australian-made fuel.
Queensland company Black Sky Aerospace has developed a process to manufacture solid-state rocket fuel – successfully using it for a launch in outback Queensland earlier this month.
The project received co-funding and support from the Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC).
Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said it’s extremely exciting that Australia’s growing space industry is now supported by reliable, on-shore fuel manufacturing for the first time.
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Matthew Trace, Queensland Dairy Farmers organisation vice-president, said local farmers will show interest if it results in better pricing for milk. If it s Queensland milk going into this product, that would be great, but if it s Victorian milk being trucked up, that wouldn t be great for the local dairy industry, he told the publication.
Mr Hastings said the milk is being Matthew Trace, Queensland Dairy Farmers organisation vice-president, said local farmers will show interest if it results in better pricing for milk.sourced from Mary Valley in Queensland and processed at a plant in Coolum on the Sunshine Coast.
Fresh milk that lasts 60 days expected to be on Queensland supermarket shelves by March
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Jeff Hastings holds bottles of milk treated using his new technique.
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The founder of a Queensland food technology company that has invented a process to keep natural milk fresh for 60 days expects consumers will be drinking the product by March.
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A Queensland company says its innovative technology should put fresh milk, lasting 60 days, on shelves in months
Dairy farmers say they would welcome the technology if it opens up new markets and better milk prices
The Federal Government hopes it will provide remote communities with easier access to fresh milk
KATHY Bartley is the woman of steel. And her superpower is transforming the Gold Coast from a tourism-reliant town to a city that s putting manufacturing on the map. Even better, she s helping change the industry itself into a more female-friendly workplace ⦠a process that surely should now be dubbed wo-manufacturing. But as the general manager of Neumann Steel, the oldest family-run reinforcing steel business in the country and based in Currumbin, Kathy is engaged in some serious business. And never more so than in that historic year of 2020. Kathy Bartley is the general manager of Neumann Steel As exports from China ground to a halt at the height of the pandemic, Neumann Steel stepped in to provide a locally based solution for other Australian companies struggling to source manufacturing parts.