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Dr Shervin Kabiri, a Mortlock fellow at the School of Agriculture at the University of Adelaide, has been awarded $400,000 as part of the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Award scheme to examine the impact of perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS).

The Federal government and the Queensland state government have joined forces to invest more than $12.79 million in six new recycling initiatives, diverting almost 69,000 tonnes of garbage from Queensland landfills each year.

The Tasmanian Government has launched TasTAFE’s new $27 million Water and Energy Trades Centre of Excellence that will provide industry-leading training to the state's water and energy apprentices.

The Queensland Government will invest an additional $53.5 million through the Industry Partnership Program (IPP) to $415.5 million to aid more industries, including critical minerals processing, manufacturing, and product development.

Businesses and organisations can now apply for X-TEND WA funding, a competitive co-investment grants program supporting organisations that deliver initiatives to assist and promote the WA Innovation Ecosystem, at any time during the year.

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has confirmed $1.9 billion in new investment commitments in the 2022-23 fiscal year, including a record $1.2 billion in renewable energy and grid-related funding commitments by Australia’s ‘green bank’, delivered despite adverse market conditions.

Operators in the recycling and processing industries in Western Australia are eligible to apply for a share of a $1 million fund to encourage investments in infrastructure projects, the government announced. 

Southern Gold Limited announced that its battery technology firm IonDrive Technologies (IDT) has been named the primary partner organisation in a newly awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) battery recycling centre in Adelaide, South Australia.

Gold Coast innovator ModnPods is ramping up production by officially opening a new modular pod factory in Arundel that will potentially produce up to 200 modular pods, including some purpose-built government employee housing.

Bosch has opened a new semiconductor test centre in Penang, Malaysia, investing EUR 65 million (AUD 109 million) to create additional capacity within the company’s global manufacturing network to meet the continued high demand for chips and sensors.