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Senator the Hon Tim Ayres

Address to FIAL's Building Collaborative Ecosystems Summit

Interview discusses seafood country of origin labelling and the Port of Newcastle.

Interview discusses seafood country of origin labelling, silicosis and occupational health and safety, Australia-China trade relations, the Voice to Parliament

Interview discusses the NSW election, manufacturing in NSW, the National Reconstruction Fund and superannuation.

Interview discusses the National Reconstruction Fund; Economic Complexity Index, R&D expenditure, Australia-Sweden collaboration and the US approach to industry policy.

Remarks to the Sweden-Australia High-Level Sustainable Mining Summit, Shangri-La Hotel

Interview discusses the Voice to Parliament referendum, the National Reconstruction Fund, rail manufacturing, and interest rate rises.

Interview discusses Australia’s trade relationship with China, lithium resources in Australia, the National Reconstruction Fund, Australia’s manufacturing capability and solar panels.

The Australian Government welcomes the announcement of Downer as the preferred supplier to manufacture 65 next generation trains as part of the Queensland Train Manufacturing Program.

Interview discusses country of origin seafood labelling.

The Hon Tim Wilson MP

Joint media conference with Prime Minister the Hon Scott Morrison MP, Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction the Hon Angus Taylor MP, President of Toyota Australia Matthew Callachor, and Member for Higgins Dr Katie Allen

Media conference discusses Future Fuels and Vehicles Strategy, hydrogen, emissions targets, electric vehicles, car parks, economic management, fuel standards

Interview discusses future Fuels and Vehicles Strategy, electric cars

Interview discusses Federal ICAC and interest rates

Joint media release with Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction the Hon Angus Taylor MP, and Member for Herbert Phil Thompson

The Morrison Government is supporting the development of the first clean hydrogen-powered trucking solution in Australia through new hydrogen infrastructure investment in North Queensland.

Joint media release with Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction the Hon Angus Taylor MP

The Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner, Mr Andrew Dyer, has been reappointed in the role for a further four year term.

Interview discusses cricketer Quinton De Kock and net zero carbon emissions.

Interview discusses net zero carbon emissions.

Interview discusses net zero carbon emissions.

Interview discusses Net zero carbon emissions.

Interview discusses emissions targets, net zero, nuclear energy

The Hon Melissa Price MP

Joint media release with Prime Minister the Hon Scott Morrison MP and Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and the Digital Economy Minister for Women's Economic Security Senator the Hon Jane Hume 

The Morrison Government is investing $111 million to secure Australia’s quantum future, supporting the commercialisation, adoption and use of this new technology to create jobs, support Australian business and keep Australians safe.

The Morrison Government is launching a free online tool to help businesses assess their digital maturity and digitise their operations. 

Joint media release with Prime Minister The Hon. Scott Morrison MP

An evolutionary biologist and virologist who played a transformative role in the global scientific response to COVID-19 has won this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Science.

Joint media release with the Minister for Home Affairs the Hon Karen Andrews MP

Australian students are set to benefit from a new $14.9 million Morrison Government education initiative designed to boost cyber security skills and prepare them for future careers in cyber security.

Joint media release with the Minister for Home Affairs the Hon Karen Andrews MP

The Morrison Government is continuing to increase the nation’s cyber security capability and build career pathways to get more Australians into jobs, with applications for more than $60 million in grant funding opening today.

One of Australia’s most experienced company directors, professional engineer Kathryn Fagg AO, has been appointed Chair of Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

GARETH PARKER: Melissa Price is the Federal Minister for Science and Technology. Minister, good morning.

MELISSA PRICE: Good morning, Gareth. Australia is going to the moon. How excited are you?

Joint media release with Prime Minister The Hon. Scott Morrison MP

Australia is heading to the Moon, with the Morrison Government reaching an agreement with NASA for an Australian made rover to be included in a future mission.

NEIL BREEN: Now is exciting – Australia’s going to the moon. For the first time ever an Australian-made rover will be sent to the Moon to help collect research and data to prepare the way for humans to live there.

RUSSELL WOOLF: Waking up this morning, we’re hearing the news Australia is to play an important role in a Moon exploration mission.

The Hon Angus Taylor MP

Interview discusses petrol prices, global oil supplies, energy security, oil storage, floods, Statement of Expectations, electricity bills

Interview discusses the increasing fuel price and proposal for fuel excise

Joint media release with Minister for Finance the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Defence Industry and for Science and Technology The Hon Melissa Price, and Premier of South Australia the Hon Steven Marshall

The Morrison Government is investing over $22 million to help build the home of Australia’s sovereign combat system capabilities in South Australia while powering our continuous shipbuilding initiative.

Interview discusses the flood emergency and evacuation efforts in New South Wales

The Morrison Government continues to bolster Australia’s status as a world leader in hydrogen through the opening of the Australia-Germany Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Incubator, known as HyGATE.

Joint media release with Assistant Minister to the Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction the Hon Tim Wilson MP and the federal member for Leichhardt the Hon Warren Entsch MP

The Morrison Government is supporting the creation of a world-leading renewable microgrid for the Daintree community in Far North Queensland. 

The Australian Government will make changes to the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) to increase liquidity, allow project proponents to take advantage of higher private market prices and ensure equitable treatment, regardless of when they commenced. 

Joint media release with Minister for Finance Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Minister for Science and Technology the Hon Melissa Price MP and Premier of South Australia the Hon Steven Marshall MP

The Australian space industry is being rocketed to new heights with the Morrison Government investing $20 million in a job-creating satellite manufacturing hub in South Australia that will accelerate the sector’s growth. 

Australia will support collective action by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to release oil stocks to help stabilise global energy markets.

Joint media release with Minister for Resources and Water the Hon Keith Pitt MP and Federal Member for Parkes the Hon Mark Coulton MP

The Morrison Government is supercharging Australia’s role in the global battery supply chain, granting Major Project Status to a $560 million cobalt project near Broken Hill, NSW.

The Hon Keith Pitt MP

Joint media release with the Member for Grey, Rowan Ramsey MP

Another $2 million in grants will be available in December to support infrastructure projects and new services that will drive economic and social benefits for Kimba and the surrounding region. 

Minister for Resources and Water Keith Pitt has welcomed the largest nickel sulphide discovery in Australia in over two decades, achieved with the support of the Federal Government’s Exploring for the Future Fund.

Latest trade data confirms Australia’s resources and energy sector is on target for another record year of exports and confirms its status as a cornerstone of Australia’s economy.

Public consultation is now open on 10 potential areas to be released for offshore petroleum exploration.

Minister for Resources and Water Keith Pitt says our resources exploration industry can now access another world-leading dataset, revealing exciting new prospective regions across more than one million square kilometres of northern Australia. 

The agency charged with delivering a facility to safely store Australia’s radioactive waste, currently spread over more than 100 locations, has its first Chief Executive Officer following a global recruitment search.

Today the Prime Minister appointed me to Cabinet as the Minister for Resources and Water. 

One month after the largest earthquake to hit south-eastern Australia in more than 200 years, small aftershocks are still being recorded by Geoscience Australia’s National Earthquake Alerts Centre (NEAC).

Joint media release with Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction the Hon Angus Taylor MP

The Morrison Government has committed $250 million to a new program that will turbocharge the development of commercial-scale carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) projects and hubs across Australia and create up to 1,500 jobs.

Australia’s resources and energy exports are forecast to earn a record $349 billion for 2021-22, with a strong recovery for coal and despite lower iron ore prices and the ongoing impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic.   

The Hon Christian Porter MP

Encouraging young indigenous women to consider STEM-based careers is the focus of three programs that have received funding under the latest round of the Morrison Government’s Women In STEM and Entrepreneurship (WISE) grants program.

Documenting the diversity of Australian insects and protecting turtle populations are just two of the important research projects that members of the public are invited to take part in under the Morrison Government’s Citizen Science grant program.

Joint media release with the Minister for Education and Youth, the Hon Alan Tudge MP

An expert working group, led by Dr Ziggy Switkowski AO, will lead the development of a new roadmap to identify Australia’s research infrastructure needs and priorities for the next five to 10 years.

Industry, Science and Technology Minister Christian Porter today tabled a report into the accessibility and operation of Australia’s patent system for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Joint media release with Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor

The Morrison Government is driving the development of Australia’s future clean hydrogen industry to support the creation of new economic and job opportunities across the country.

The Morrison Government is helping small businesses to gain a foothold in the rapidly growing space sector, with the opening today of the Australian Space Data Analysis Facility (ASDAF) in Western Australia.

Australian businesses have the chance to help build the world’s largest radio telescope, with expressions of interest opening today for the first major construction contract linked to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. 

Helping Australian manufacturers to quickly and easily connect with suppliers is the aim of a new industry capability register launched by the Morrison Government.

Australians are being encouraged to buy local to support Australian manufacturers and grow local jobs. 

Doorstop to announce the Government's support for Australia's own sovereign manufacturing capability for mRNA vaccines.

The Hon Karen Andrews MP

Joint media release with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Women, Senator the Hon Marise Payne

Innovative, female-led startups across Australia are being backed by the Morrison Government, with nearly $12 million in support to help them scale up and grow their businesses.

Interview discusses Hayabusa2

Interview discusses Hayabusa2

Joint media release with the Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC, and the Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, The Hon David Littleproud MP.

Interview discussed Manufacturing Modernisation Fund

The Morrison Government is backing Australian manufacturers with shovel-ready projects that will create jobs and drive the country’s COVID-19 comeback, with applications now open for round two of the $52.8 million Manufacturing Modernisation Fund (MMF).

Interview discusses Manufacturing Modernisation Fund and medical research

A marine ecologist, space technologist and neuroscientist are among 60 outstanding women in science, engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM) who have been named as the newest Superstars of STEM.

After a tough year for Australian families, the Morrison Government is making sure they can shop with confidence when buying their Christmas groceries, with a two-week blitz on fresh food sales.

Joint media release with the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, the Hon Keith Pitt MP

The Morrison Government is helping fast-track a $1.5 billion project to mine phosphate in the Northern Territory, which will create more than a thousand jobs and export opportunities for the Top End.

Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash

Joint media release with the Treasurer the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP

The Morrison Government continues to back small business with the announcement that it will extend the $150,000 instant asset write-off for six months to 31 December 2020.

Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business Michaelia Cash delivered the opening address to the Tourism Training Australia Skills Summit.

Joint media release with the Minister for Industry, Science and Technology the Hon Karen Andrews MP

The Morrison Government reaffirmed its strong commitment to small business today with the announcement of $5 million in funding for a national campaign to encourage Australians to support their local small businesses.

Interview discusses skills, vocational education and training sector, national skills commission (NSC)

Interview discusses employment sector, the university education system and border closures.

Interview discusses importance of jobs; vocational education and training, opening up state borders

Interview discusses increase in unemployment in Australia, JobKeeper and JobSeeker figures

Interview discusses ABS labour force figures, JobKeeper, JobSeeker, Mutual Obligation, Jobs Hub, PaTH Program

Interview discusses ABS labour force figures, JobKeeper, JobSeeker, Mutual Obligation, Hobs Hub, PaTH Program