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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Net zero transition = new energy infrastructure, grid investment & industrial retooling at scale. Economic complexity & resilience = sovereign manufacturing capability & uplift in research & technology investment rdasydney.org.au/what-austral...

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Built here, or left behind: what Australia's industrial reckoning means for the regions - RDA Sydney

Regional Development Australia (RDA) Sydney is part of a Federal Government initiative that seeks to create strong, confident and vibrant regions. RDA Sydney provides support, promotion and advocacy f...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“Industrial policy is security policy. I start from a social democratic understanding of security. A society’s capacity to withstand shocks depends on strong public institutions, social cohesion & a robust industrial base” www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ti... @timayres.bsky.social

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“Industrial policy is a necessity, not an obstacle, for Australia's purposeful engagement abroad and an economic tool to lift #productivity and constraints on growth here” Great speech by Minister Tim Ayres www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ti... @albomp.bsky.social @timayres.bsky.social

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“The SERD panel has made a welcome contribution to a complex and undervalued policy domain. The government’s task now is to process and integrate this contribution with its wider, transformative vision of a Future Made in Australia” www.innovationaus.com/research-and... @timayres.bsky.social

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Research and innovation has reached a tipping point

Amid global turmoil, the report of the Strategic Examination of R&D (SERD) calls for “bold reform” of Australia’s “broken” research and innovation system. What better time to prepare for an uncertain ...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“This is not a story about one industry being disrupted. It is a story about the capital stock of the knowledge economy being repriced in real time” Our take on AI transformation www.afr.com/policy/econo...

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History tells us a golden age can come after the AI apocalypse

Societies must channel technological potential toward broad-based growth rather than allowing the gains to concentrate among the winners of the speculative phase.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“In the post-war period… the US might've got away with dominating not only its hemisphere, but the entire world economy. But those days are gone. We're in a multipolar world now, and we're beginning to see the formation of trade blocs” My take @abcnewsbot.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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Trump threatens fresh tariffs on 10 countries in almost as many days

In the past fortnight, US President Donald Trump has threatened tariffs against at least 10 countries. Some experts say the Trump administration's tariff policy is leading to the creation of new tradi...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“How much will AI change the world between 2015 and 2045? A lesson from economic history is that general purpose technologies like the internet take multiple decades to have their full impact” web.stanford.edu/~chadj/AIand... #AI

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“Essentially, the attachment of policymakers to a doctrine of comparative advantage has allowed the resources sector to crowd out the prospect of achieving competitive advantage in higher value, knowledge-based goods and services” Last chance saloon @johnmenadue.com johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

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What does it mean to be bold on the economy?

Australia’s export mix is dangerously narrow. A mission-led industrial strategy is needed to build competitive advantage and lift productivity.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

‘Frank’s unique approach was to start, not with external appearances, but to “design from the inside out” in dialogue with the users about the functionality of the internal spaces.’ My take on #FrankGehry, genius www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...

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‘This will be my dream project.’ How we got Frank Gehry to design the UTS ‘paper bag’

The world-famous architect was hooked when we asked him to come on board. Within weeks he was in Sydney to check us out.

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

First was an interesting session on innovation ecosystems with a focus on Australia at the University of Technology Sydney with John H Howard, @profroygreen.bsky.social, Mat Howard, Bronwyn Fox, Michael Priddis, and Davor Jozic www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVla... (2/7)

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Handbook of Innovation Ecosystems - Book Launch and Panel Discussion

YouTube video by University of Technology Sydney

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“Whyalla provides litmus test for Fed & SA govt’s commitment to green iron. It has all the right ingredients for a thriving, globally competitive #GreenIron industry. In addition to low-cost energy, there is magnetite ore – ideal for making green iron” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Whyalla steelworks might be the best place in the world to make low-cost green iron. Will Labor seize the moment? | Rod Sims and Baethan Mullan

If the government is committed to the energy transition and a future made in Australia, the choice that must be made is clear

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

What was I doing on that fateful day Nov 11 1975? Presenting analysis of Treasurer Bill Hayden’s budget 📊 to the AMWU national organisers’ school (yes that’s Laurie Carmichael taking notes). By the afternoon it was Malcolm Fraser’s budget & school was out 😠

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

As part of the Albanese Govt’s Future Made in Australia agenda, I want to see greater national coordination of our #research & #innovation talents to address national challenges, inc global shift to low carbon industrial production @timayres.bsky.social www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ti...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

‘While this survey shows #Australia went backwards on most measures, it is particularly concerning to see our big falls in #education & training, and our persistently weak scores on #business agility’ www.ceda.com.au/research-and...

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IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2025

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Zara Crichton @rarazara.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🏭 SAVE TOMAGO! @profroygreen.bsky.social special finance vehicle solution is key to securing affordable renewable energy for the aluminium plant. It'll save 6,000 jobs, protect a $6B sovereign industry, and drive clean energy investment! Let's back a future for Hunter manufacturing. #Tomago #auspol

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Should taxpayers be forking out for another "unviable" smelter?

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“This is an important part of becoming a more complex & resilient economy. The idea we can do without #manufacturing and move to a services economy given that services don't contribute much to our export mix is a fantasy” @abcnewsbot.bsky.social youtu.be/FMSWsKbXvUU?... @timayres.bsky.social

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Should taxpayers be forking out for another "unviable" smelter? | The Business | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Canadian parallels - “What would it take to become a leader in green energy, sustainable agriculture, green transportation, biotechnology, a resilient & digitalized high-value-added processing economy?” socialistproject.ca/2025/10/beyo... #NetZero #manufacturing #tech

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Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War

Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic ...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Consultations for the review of the Energy Industry Jobs Plan (EIJP) have come to an end and the written submissions have now been published on our consultation hub www.netzero.gov.au/review-energ... #EnergyTransition

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“Without the knowledge & without the critical thinking skills instilled by print, many of the citizens of modern democracies find themselves as helpless & as credulous as medieval peasants — moved by irrational appeals & prone to mob thinking” open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

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The dawn of the post-literate society

And the end of civilisation

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

“More than any other place on earth, we have most to gain from a low-carbon global economy thanks to our vast solar & wind resources, mineral wealth, proximity to growing markets & strategic partnerships” @timayres.bsky.social www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/ti... @albomp.bsky.social

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“Without investment in skills, diffusion will stall. Without attention to sovereignty, dependency will deepen. Without strategic alignment, the promise of #AI as a #productivity booster could turn into another story of missed opportunity” www.innovationaus.com/ai-wont-driv... @acri-uts.bsky.social

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AI won’t drive productivity without targeted govt policy

Productivity Commission chief Danielle Wood is right to describe artificial intelligence as a “general-purpose technology” in the mold of electricity, the internal combustion engine, or the internet. ...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“Australia’s biggest fossil fuel subsidy is hiding in plain sight. The diesel Fuel Tax Credit scheme — a taxpayer-funded rebate mostly benefitting big miners — is costing Australians tens of billions, fuelling emissions & damaging #productivity growth” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

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Capping Australia’s biggest fossil subsidy is the productivity reform we can’t afford to ignore

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel subsidy is hiding in plain sight. The diesel Fuel Tax Credit (FTC) scheme — a taxpayer-funded rebate mostly benefitting big miners — is costing Australians tens of bill...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

While a #productivity roundtable without the #research & #innovation system at its heart is ‘Hamlet without the Prince’, separate ministerial roundtables may contribute to the outcomes of the govt’s Strategic Examination of R&D www.timeshighereducation.com/news/canberr...

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Canberra pre-summit roundtables ‘will make a difference’

Amid claims outcomes of long-anticipated talkfest have been orchestrated in advance, expert says precursor events promise ‘substance’

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

For roundtable reflection - “an almost exact correlation between the decline of manufacturing, the decline of business expenditure on R&D and the decline of productivity growth, now at its lowest level in almost 60 years” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... @albomp.bsky.social

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Off the productivity round table: What won't be discussed this week

Problem and productivity. It's a pairing that has become inseparable in recent times, given our productivity growth is the lowest in half a century.

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Nico Adams @nicoadams.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Unsurprising, but nevertheless tragic. Makes it very hard for integrators and multidisciplinarians to exist in academia. #academicsky

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“Australia can no longer rely on comparative advantage in our raw materials but should instead create competitive advantage in global & domestic value chains” My take on govt coinvestment in new #smelter technologies www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... @albomp.bsky.social

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Australia in race to wind back industrial devolution

We rank amongst the world's richest nations when it comes to personal wealth but, in terms of our economy and particularly its complexity, we sit amongst the world's poorest — and the situation is pro...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Great to welcome chair Martijn Wilder, CEO David Gall & National Reconstruction Fund (NRFC) board to the #ARMHub & #UAP for tour & discussion about how we grow globally competitive knowledge-driven #manufacturing SMEs ⚙️📡🔬 @albomp.bsky.social

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“The government can’t legislate for better management but what it can do is introduce programs for management & enterprise improvement to build the innovative capability of companies” My take on #management practice & #productivity debate www.afr.com/work-and-car... @sallymcmanus.bsky.social

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Bosses blast union productivity comments as ‘a distraction’

Employers have roasted ACTU chief Sally McManus over her statement that poor management is driving poor productivity, describing it as “misguided” and “wrong”.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“The only institutions that are holding up R&D are #universities, and that's only because of increased funding from overseas students — which we've just cut” My take on Academy of Science proposal for R&D levy www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07... @uniaus.bsky.social @science.org.au

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Calls to tax big businesses that don't invest in new technology

The solution to Australia's productivity problem could be more investment in research and development, and a new tax on big business might be one way to achieve that.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

“The Albanese government has an historic opportunity to remake our trade & industrial structure for a world of rapid technological change & shifting geopolitical alliances. It should not be missed” My take on economic reform agenda www.innovationaus.com/economic-ref... @albomp.bsky.social

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Economic reform must include industrial transformation

For a while it looked like federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Economic Reform Roundtable would turn into a tax summit, such was the clamour to revisit missed opportunities. And we have an abundance of th...

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Space policy is industrial policy, innovation policy, climate policy, agricultural policy & defence policy at the 18th Australian Space Forum australianspaceforum.com.au

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18th Australian Space Forum — Andy Thomas Space Foundation

15–16 July, 2025 • Adelaide, South Australia

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“I look forward to assessing this important legislation aimed at assisting workers in the areas of Australia most impacted by the transition and identifying opportunities in the industries and technologies of the future” www.netzero.gov.au/media-releas... @albomp.bsky.social

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“In a democracy, parties have to acknowledge this basic truth: workers & communities must see the benefits of the economic agenda. As chancellor Rachel Reeves has said, where things are made, and who makes them, matters” on.ft.com/4enuAhU @albomp.bsky.social

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Labour’s industrial policy can succeed where Biden failed

The UK government faces few of the obstacles that stymied the former US president’s agenda

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“In an AI-systems world, #productivity is not merely about human capital or business incentives. It's about system command: Who controls the architecture? Who defines the standards? Who owns & governs the flows of data, decisions & influence” open.substack.com/pub/realpoli...

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Australia’s Digital Dissonance: Why the Productivity Conversation Needs a Reset

Our digital economy is being colonised—not with malice, but by neglect.

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

UK projected spending growth for 2025/26 - 2028/29 is highest for #science, #innovation & #research at 7.4% over the 3 yr period. This is a strategic bet on the future that has to pay off on.ft.com/4jSMWIG

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Labour bets big on an infrastructure-led recovery

While the party shows largesse on capital spending, it pencils in pretty tight settlements for public services

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Roy Green @profroygreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“Future Made In Australia will focus on critical minerals, iron & steel production & boosting manufacturing. Esp in regions where the intersection of our future energy advantage & our industrial capability means Australia can deliver” says Minister Tim Ayres www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek to be a world leader in the field, industry and science minister says

Tim Ayres says the Albanee government will focus on legislation and regulation but that Australia would benefit from moving quickly

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