The Hon Karen Andrews MP Media Releases
Joint media release with the Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, the Hon Keith Pitt MP, the Senator for Queensland, Susan McDonald, and the Member for Herbert, Phillip Thompson MP.
The Morrison Government has welcomed the findings of a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) study that has identified the enormous economic potential of the Northern Australian forestry and forest products industry.
The Morrison Government is backing Australian manufacturers to modernise how they do business, with critical investment in small and medium sized businesses in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
A group of four Australian-owned and operated manufacturers has teamed up with an international medical technology company and is drawing on local supply chains to manufacture emergency hospital beds in response to COVID-19.
A family-owned Victorian business is the first Australian manufacturer to pivot and produce thousands of medical grade surgical gowns for frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joint media release with the Minister for Defence Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
Defence has joined forces with a family-owned South Australian company to rapidly produce face shields for frontline healthcare workers.
Joint media release with Minister for Health the Hon Greg Hunt MP
More than 3000 ventilators have been delivered to the Federal Government from Australian manufacturing company ResMed to assist in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Joint media release with the Minister for Defence Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds CSC
A new Defence-led Rapid Response Group has been established to help increase domestic stocks of invasive ventilators, as part of Australia’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
A group of Australian manufacturing companies and engineering firms will work together to produce 2,000 invasive ventilators in Australia as part of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Joint media release with the Federal Member for Wide Bay, Llew O'Brien MP.
The Morrison Government is supporting a world-first program, based on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, to help commercialise technology to predict, prevent, fight and manage bushfire emergencies.
Joint media release with Minister for Health the Hon Greg Hunt MP.
CSIRO’s work to better understand the virus that leads to COVID-19 and test potential vaccines is being given a substantial boost with a $220 million upgrade of its high containment biosecurity research facility in Geelong