{"id":12457,"date":"2021-08-11T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12457"},"modified":"2021-08-11T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:27:12","slug":"800-million-on-offer-for-major-job-creating-manufacturing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/800-million-on-offer-for-major-job-creating-manufacturing-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"$800 million on offer for major job creating manufacturing projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian manufacturers can now apply for a share of $800 million in funding for major job creating projects under the Collaboration Stream of the Morrison Government\u2019s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative.<br \/>\nFunding of between $20 million and $200 million is available, covering up to 33 per cent of eligible project expenditure.<br \/>\nMinister for Industry, Science and Technology Christian Porter said the Government will strategically invest in projects that will help manufacturers to scale up and create jobs, with investments targeted at projects within the six National Manufacturing Priority areas.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a Government we plan to harness Australia\u2019s manufacturing capability to drive job creation and spur private investment, especially as we chart our economic recovery from COVID-19 and build our future resilience,\u201d Minister Porter said.<br \/>\n\u201cThrough the Collaboration Stream, we are determined to co-invest in industry-led proposals that will transform our National Manufacturing Priority areas, by encouraging manufacturers to move up the value chain to higher value, higher margin activities, including drawing on our world class research.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is at the heart of our $1.5 billion Modern Manufacturing Strategy which is all designed to support Australian manufacturers to scale-up, build resilience, become more competitive and create the jobs we need not only now but for generations to come.\u201d<br \/>\nThe six National Manufacturing Priority areas are: medical products; clean energy and recycling; food and beverage; defence; space and resource technology and critical minerals processing.<br \/>\nApplications are open until 9 September. More details and the guidelines are available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business.gov.au\/mmic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.business.gov.au\/mmic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian manufacturers can now apply for a share of $800 million in funding for major job creating projects under the Collaboration Stream of the Morrison Government\u2019s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative. Funding of between $20 million and $200 million is available, covering up to 33 per cent of eligible project expenditure. Minister for Industry, Science &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/11\/800-million-on-offer-for-major-job-creating-manufacturing-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;$800 million on offer for major job creating manufacturing projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}