KAREN ANDREWS: Well, hello. It’s an absolute pleasure to be here at Neumanns here on the Gold Coast. Neumanns are, quite frankly, a shining lot of local manufacturing here on the Gold Coast, employing about 160 workers on this site, 350 across the Gold Coast and then more broadly, about 550. They’re a great example…
Topics: Modern Manufacturing Strategy E&OE: Ross Stevenson: Victorian medical, food and beverage businesses will become world leaders in a budget plan, costing $1.5 billion, to kick-start the nation’s manufacturing sector and create 300,000 jobs. Karen Andrews is the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology. Minister, good morning to you. Karen Andrews: Good morning. Ross Stevenson:…
Topics: coronavirus, Australian manufacturing, supply chains E&OE Sabra Lane: Thank you Karen Andrews in delivering your first National Press Club address. As you point out, Australia has experienced a major disruption in global supply chains here and it’s been a wakeup call for businesses, and we appear to be paying a price for leading the…
Topics: Australian manufacturing and coronavirus vaccine E&OE: Matt Tribe: This might sound like a contradiction in terms. The declining manufacturing industry is about to get a reboot and it’s thanks to COVID-19. Almost every industry has felt the financial pension in the last few weeks, with manufacturing a central pillar on that list, particularly in…
Topics: Australian manufacturing amid COVID-19 E&OE: Virginia Trioli: It is a clear and stated bias of mine. I think I was open about that from the day I took this program that ever since my early days as a business reporter, I’m a big fan of having some kind of industry policy, of having a…
Topics: Unemployment forecast, Australian manufacturing capability and supply chains E&OE: Fran Kelly: The economic cost of the COVID pandemic is becoming clearer, with unemployment officially forecast to peak at 10 per cent by the middle of the year as we heard earlier. This Treasury analysis comes ahead of Thursday’s meeting of National Cabinet, where the…
Topics: Australian manufacturing and supply chains E&OE: Paul Murray: Karen Andrews is the Science and Industry Minister and she would like to see more manufacturing come back to Australia. Put simply, we can’t have this scenario where China makes everything because when there is a virus that starts in China or anything happens in the…
Topics: Australian manufacturing in the face of COVID-19, SA packaging company to produce PPE E&OE: Leon Byner: Well, as you’ve heard, a South Australian company, a packaging manufacturer, is going to begin making millions of surgical masks and respirators from its Adelaide factory – 160 jobs. Let’s talk to the Federal Industry, Science and Technology…
The food and grocery manufacturing industry in South East Queensland generated more than $7.5 billion last year, a new economic snapshot has found. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews said the industry is a vitally important contributor to the local economy, as shown in the Australian Food and Grocery Council’s South East Queensland…