Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
Joining BlueSky to make society great again through transformative change and innovation. Based at the University of Technology Sydney, plus boards such as CSIRO, SmartSatCRC and Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub. Let's see how it goes. .. more
Joining BlueSky to make society great again through transformative change and innovation. Based at the University of Technology Sydney, plus boards such as CSIRO, SmartSatCRC and Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Hub. Let's see how it goes.
Economics
45%
Political science
15%
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
www.theguardian.com
“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...
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 😠
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...
IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2025
www.ceda.com.au
‘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...
OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2025
The STI Outlook 2025 explores how science, technology and innovation can be mobilised to support transformative change in the economy and society. It examines how scientific co-operation is being resh...
www.oecd.org
“Adopting an industrial ecosystem perspective that goes beyond sectoral boundaries to consider both upstream and downstream industries can contribute to designing more effective industrial policies” @oecd-ocde.bsky.social
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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.
www.abc.net.au
🏭 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
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
Should taxpayers be forking out for another "unviable" smelter? | The Business | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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“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
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 ...
socialistproject.ca
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
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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Oct 4
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
open.substack.com
“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...
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Oct 3
'Tinkering' with the NRF on Net Zero comes under fire
The biggest diversion from the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) – a $5 billion Net Zero Fund for heavy industries to clean up operations -- was announced last month by Industry minister Tim Ayres. E...
www.innovationaus.com
“The #NetZero plan is no longer just about high level aspirations but detailed execution of the #energy transition & diversification, sector by sector, of Australia’s narrow trade & industrial structure” My take www.innovationaus.com/tinkering-wi... @timayres.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Oct 1
Is Australia’s latest research review a threat to university autonomy?
The panel’s overriding concern is to ensure that research is used productively. But observers worry that pushing universities to specialise in centrally determined ‘focus areas’ risks inadvertently tu...
www.timeshighereducation.com
“It’s last chance saloon time for Australia’s #research & #innovation system. We need to get it right this time” No more kicking this can down the road ⛔️ www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/austra... @timayres.bsky.social @jasonclaremp.bsky.social
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Sep 22
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Manufacturing is about quality and robots – not cheap wages - Australian Manufacturing Forum
Following the launch of a new campaign by the Manufacturing Industry Skills Alliance aiming to “challenge outdated stereotypes” attached to manufacturing, Professor Beth Webster and Dr Alexander Gosli...
www.aumanufacturing.com.au
“Much policy discussion is grounded in out-of-date notions that #manufacturing depends on cheap workers & economies of scale. The business model has changed. Today’s champions draw from #science & #research for global value chains” www.aumanufacturing.com.au/manufacturin... @timayres.bsky.social
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Sep 7
Generative & Agentic AI Industry Connection Ignites Innovation at the ARM Hub
Our Marketing and Communications Intern Jeanie Kumar reports on two major events involving ARM Hub. By Jeanie Kumar ARM Hub has been meeting with leading voices in the robotics and AI sector across Au...
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“#Manufacturing rapidly modernises our #technology capability as a nation, drives business investment in #research & #innovation and it’s where some of the greatest margins can be captured in global supply chains” says Prof Cori Stewart #ARMHub www.linkedin.com/pulse/genera...
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 27
Beyond absorption: Building ecosystems that deliver impact
Victor Pantano is right to point out that much of Australian industry struggles to engage with research. The problem is well rehearsed – businesses have too few R&D skilled staff, limited processes fo...
www.innovationaus.com
“Enterprise absorptive capacity matters, but the danger is that if we focus only on diagnosing its absence, we miss the real lever for change: redesigning the #research & #innovation system” www.innovationaus.com/beyond-absor...
Reposted by Naomi Priest, Richard Denniss
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 23
Economic round table recycles broken ideas
ANALYSIS: To boost Australian productivity, the government must look beyond the lower-tax and free-market solutions that have long reinforced its downward trend.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
“Sweden is no outlier. Norway, Denmark and Finland all have much higher taxes and much bigger public sectors than ours, and much stronger #productivity growth” notes @richarddenniss.bsky.social www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 22
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. ...
www.innovationaus.com
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 22
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...
johnmenadue.com
“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...
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 18
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’
www.timeshighereducation.com
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...
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 18
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.
www.abc.net.au
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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 16
Economic reform and the productivity slowdown
The productivity slowdown is mostly due to slower technological progress. The economic reform agenda should focus on measures to improve competitive pressures for firms to innovate and improve.
johnmenadue.com
“The data show no correlation between #taxation & #productivity growth, nor with the rate of #innovation. Instead, it may be that tax revenue spent on #education, #skills & #research will make more difference to productivity growth” Michael Keating johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08... @albomp.bsky.social
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Aug 5
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...
www.abc.net.au
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jul 31
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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jul 27
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”.
www.afr.com
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jul 27
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.
www.abc.net.au
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jul 23
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...
www.innovationaus.com
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jul 15
18th Australian Space Forum — Andy Thomas Space Foundation
15–16 July, 2025 • Adelaide, South Australia
australianspaceforum.com.au
Space policy is industrial policy, innovation policy, climate policy, agricultural policy & defence policy at the 18th Australian Space Forum australianspaceforum.com.au
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jun 26
www.netzero.gov.au
“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
Roy Green
@profroygreen.bsky.social
· Jun 24
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
on.ft.com
“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