The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the local manufacturing sector's ability to deal with future crises | DarrenGrayRural
because of COVID-19, to make goods like hand sanitiser and ventilators, Ms Andrews said the health of the sector needs to be reviewed."Australia needed to consider its "sovereign capability, so what are the things that we need to be manufacturing here in Australia, what are the essential supply chains for us.
Asked whether more federal support was needed for manufacturers of important medical equipment she said "I think that's certainly something that we should look at". "But I think that the underlying need to do that has really revealed that Australia is not well prepared for a crisis of this kind, she said."Jens Goennemann, managing director of the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre"I think we've learned that manufacturing is an essential capability, that a nation needs to have its sovereign capability to address not only this crisis, but many other kinds of crises," she said.
The federally-funded Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre has received about 1900 registrations from companies or individuals offering their capabilities in relation to COVID-19.
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