Opposition Leader, the Coalition
| Role | Organisation | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Defence Minister | Australian Government | Startup Daily, @AuManufacturing |
| Defence Minister | Australian Department of Defence | @AuManufacturing |
| Defence Minister | Commonwealth Government | @AuManufacturing |
| Opposition Leader | the Coalition | Startup Daily |
| Opposition Leader | the federal opposition | @AuManufacturing |
Stories naming Peter Dutton. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
Roundup of short industry items: Element 25 and Vaxxas win US government grants, Orthocell gets an R&D refund, Convergence Medical completes its Series A, and Monique Conheady takes a Hysata board seat.
Also Startup Daily
Gilmour Space Technologies has received a fifteen-million-dollar government contract to build and launch a surveillance satellite for Defence, with the company also recalling a larger consortium grant awarded earlier in the year.
The federal government announced a $41 million defence contract for NSW engineering group Varley, part of a wider deployable infrastructure investment; the piece also notes $784 million in recent manufacturing grants.