Australia’s biggest tech blind spot is manufacturing
Manufacturing suffers from an image problem in Australia, often viewed as repetitive, low-tech factory work rather than one of the country’s most innovation-heavy industries.
Every so often, groups representing manufacturers will do their best to convey manufacturing as it is, rather than what it was, to the Australian public.
There are some examples of international leadership at the company level, sure, which I could name and which you probably could too. But manufacturing’s contribution to Australian GDP at about 5% is low by international standards, and its appreciation also needs lifting.
I am fortunate enough to have helped companies make all sorts of things during my career.
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