Industries

Melbourne's own Starward whisky distillery is celebrating a constellation of awards at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, saying local producers are ready to challenge nations like Japan in the global export market.

Victorian distillery and tourist attraction Billson's has entered voluntary administration, after what co-owner Nathan Cowan called "vast and incomprehensible" challenges to the business.

Australian e-waste recycling venture Sircel has secured a $5 million investment from Kilara Capital, helping it retrieve precious materials from discarded technology and tackle the pernicious problem of old solar panels.

The federal government will introduce laws for its signature Future Made in Australia policy on Wednesday.

Grain, hops, yeast, and water are all it takes to make a beer. The recipe for a successful craft brewery is a little more complex. And in Australia, it seems the ingredients are in short supply.

Australian manufacturers have notched up a better few months for new orders and tax cuts should help household incomes recover and underpin healthier demand for goods.

Australia has a new National Battery Strategy, unveiled last week as a key part of the government’s Future Made in Australia agenda. The vision is for this country to be making batteries with secure supply chains by 2035.

Peter Dutton is expected to reject manufacturing subsidies worth billions of dollars in his response to the federal budget.

If Labor is to be believed, only government intervention and spending billions of taxpayer dollars will enable Australia to “compete” in the new global protectionism race to build local manufacturing. But what if Australia was already competing effectively in manufacturing?

Australia's largest-ever private satellite is not lost in space, its creators say, as they attempt to communicate with a vessel containing technology from eight local space-tech innovators.

The ambitiously named Future Made in Australia Act was launched last week as a warmup act to the May budget. While the announcement was music to our ears, it felt like the song’s intro was stuck in a loop, writes Sam Ringwaldt.

South Australian confectioners Menz, which acquired the rights to the Polly Waffle chocolate in 2019, has confirmed the sweet treat will return to supermarket shelves on Friday in a new format.