PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 3 May

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Food & Drink Business

Expressions of interest close on 19 July for FLIP NSW, a free statewide pre-accelerator designed to give women founders, including those building early-stage food and beverage ventures, the skills, networks and coaching to take ideas to market.

With the manufacturing sector continuing to grapple with uncontrollable industry pressures – rising input costs, supply chain volatility, tax pressures – manufacturers must arm themselves with the core financial structures needed to support them through this predictably unpredictable environment. RSM Australia's Ross Dixon writes.

Cellular Agriculture Australia (CAA) has called on policymakers to treat food and fuel biomanufacturing as a single shared industrial foundation, arguing that Australia’s siloed approach to precision fermentation and advanced biofuels is limiting investment and scale.