What will future manufacturing jobs really look like?
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Analysis

What will future manufacturing jobs really look like?

The government is set to spend $22 billion on manufacturing over the next decade. But what does the future of the industry look like?

  • bySue White

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Yikes! Our tiny manufacturing sector makes us rich but ugly
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Opinion

Yikes! Our tiny manufacturing sector makes us rich but ugly

Did you realise that our manufacturing sector is the smallest among all the rich countries?

  • byRoss Gittins
More than a quarry:Economists back Albanese’s $23 billion gamble
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More than a quarry:Economists back Albanese’s $23 billion gamble

A group of economists and policy experts has rallied to support the government’s Future Made in Australia plan,saying the country will be poorer without it.

  • byShane Wright
Australia’s future to be made under Treasury’s watchful eye

Australia’s future to be made under Treasury’s watchful eye

Treasury’s “national interest framework” in the planned Future Made in Australia Act provides stronger grounds for hoping that the oversight will keep the crazy decisions to a minimum.

  • byRoss Gittins
‘No shortage’:Producers reject minister’s gas supply claim
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‘No shortage’:Producers reject minister’s gas supply claim

Victoria’s gas companies have declared there is no shortage of local reserves to fill impending shortfalls.

  • byMike Foley
Developed in a lab and grown in a vat:It’s meat,but not as you know it

Developed in a lab and grown in a vat:It’s meat,but not as you know it

Global demand for meat is growing. Without innovation,this will put more pressure on land clearing and greenhouse gas emissions. Could cultured meat be the solution?

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
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Australia’s $22.7 billion bet on the $US1.4 trillion fight with China

Australia’s $22.7 billion bet on the $US1.4 trillion fight with China

A Future Made in Australia is really about a global battle,led by the United States,against a rising China and a destabilising Russia.

  • byShane Wright
Made in Australia:The $22.7 billion punt to rival China’s dominance

Made in Australia:The $22.7 billion punt to rival China’s dominance

The government is betting big on green technologies and industry to grow local manufacturing.

  • byMike Foley
Orica boss says gas pledge won’t fix today’s soaring price problem

Orica boss says gas pledge won’t fix today’s soaring price problem

The high cost of gas in Australia is skewing investment decisions towards other countries,says manufacturing boss.

  • bySimon Johanson
From Melbourne to the moon,Victorians seek space in lunar industry

From Melbourne to the moon,Victorians seek space in lunar industry

Australia’s space industry is finally taking off,working on everything from the country’s first lunar rover to growing plants on the moon.

  • byMadeleine Heffernan
Chalmers must balance big talk on new spending with vow to rein in inflation

Chalmers must balance big talk on new spending with vow to rein in inflation

The treasurer wants to unleash huge public investment in new industries to cement Labor’s “made in Australia” plan. That sets up the Coalition attack.

  • byDavid Crowe