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  • Mining tech startup Plotlogic closes $43m Series B round
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    As the world’s renewable clean energy transformation drives demand for vital minerals, Brisbane-based mining technology firm Plotlogic has raised $43 million to increase investment in R&D and continue its expansion into North America market.

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  • CSIRO, universities get $12m for CleanTech research
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    Five projects at RMIT University, the University of Melbourne and the CSIRO will develop networks of clean energy experts across the globe, allowing Australian researchers to connect with international research and companies and collaborate.

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  • $64 million in funding for new ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres and ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
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    Thirteen new Australian Research Council ‘hubs’ have each received a share of more than $64.8 million in funding to mentor and train Australia's next generation of research professionals.

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  • UNSW SMaRT Centre partners with Jamestrong to bolster aluminium manufacturing in Australia
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    A ‘green aluminium’ partnership will make Jamestrong one of the world’s first manufacturers of aluminium aerosol cans created from recycled and non-recycled material.

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  • Future Fellows to explore space, quantum and economic sanctions
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    From investigating rock art to quantum computing and searching for life on other planets, ARC’S Future Fellowships scheme is supporting collaboration and innovative research in an array of Australia’s priority areas.

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  • Main Sequence surpasses $1 billion funds under management for deep tech as it launches new Fund
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    With the closing of its third fund, Australian deep tech investment fund Main Sequence has announced that it has surpassed the $1 billion under management milestone.

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  • Is lab-grown meat coming soon to a supermarket near you?
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    Lab-grown meat could hit Australia’s shelves as early as 2024. With the global population tipped to hit 10 billion people by 2050, is this new initiative the key to meeting global demand and creating a sustainable meat industry?

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  • Australia is touted as a future clean energy ‘superpower’ – but research suggests other nations will outperform us
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    Australia could emerge from the net-zero transition as a clean energy superpower but many other countries are also racing to expand renewable energy production. Australia’s potential is vast, but will we become the world’s biggest energy exporter?

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  • New $240 million Trailblazer project to create defence industry of the future
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    Assistant Minister for Education, Anthony Chisholm has officially launched a $240 million Trailblazer Universities project which will generate innovative defence solutions and create thousands of new jobs.

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  • New biological wool harvesting research underway
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    Researchers are undertaking critical research into the biological harvesting of wool. The promising new research could one day provide an alternative method to conventional wool harvesting that is both low skilled and labour intensive.

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