The Australian Government has a new economic plan called a Future Made in Australia

Supporting partnership projects to drive systemic structural and cultural change in training and work environments.

Visit the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ Building Women’s Careers Program.

Providing incentives and industry-based mentoring to support apprentices taking up an apprenticeship in the clean energy sector.

Visit the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ New Energy Apprenticeships Program.

Fee-Free TAFE is a joint initiative of the Australian, State and Territory governments, providing tuition-free courses to students wanting to train, retrain or upskill.

Visit Your Careers

Funding for programs to promote diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education and industries.

Visit the Department of Industry, Science and Resources’ Diversity in STEM.

Providing workforce transition support for workers and communities affected by the net zero transition.

Visit the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ Supporting workers, families and communities.

Helping workers affected by the closure of coal and gas-fired power stations find new employment. Providing support for job and skills matching and offering onboarding and early retirement incentives to employers.

Visit the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ Supporting workers, families and communities.

Improving coordination of policies and government services, attracting investment that create jobs in relevant sectors, and support workers affected by the shift to net zero emissions.

Visit the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Net Zero Economy Authority

Training a new energy workforce to transition to Net Zero.

Visit the Minister for Skills and Training's media release on Skilling the Clean Energy Workforce.

Promoting hydrogen workforce development and supporting the skilled workforce needs of the growing domestic hydrogen industry.

Visit the Minister for Skills and Training's media release on Investing in skills and training to support a Future Made in Australia.

Accelerating the discovery of critical minerals and other resources to support Australia’s net zero transition and enable responsible management of Australia’s natural resources.

Visit Geoscience Australia’s Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity.

Aiming to increase the number of large-scale renewable hydrogen projects in Australia by bridging the economic gap for industry participants, administered by ARENA.

Visit the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Hydrogen Headstart

Representing a comprehensive formal review and update of the 2019 National Hydrogen Strategy, which focusses on accelerating clean hydrogen industry growth.

Visit the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s Australian’s National Hydrogen Strategy.

Expediting the emergence of Australia’s green metals industry.

Visit the Department of Industry, Science and Resources’ Green metals.

Developing, agreeing and maintaining a national priority list of renewable energy and related projects; and increasing regulatory capacity to support accelerated Commonwealth environmental assessments for up to 20 of these listed projects at any given time.

Visit the Minister for the Environment and Water’s media release on Advancing a Nature Positive Australia.

Supporting innovative solar PV manufacturing facilities in Australia across the solar supply chain.

Visit the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Solar Sunshot

Working to reduce the backlog, supporting administration of complex cultural heritage applications and progress the reform of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.

Visit the National Indigenous Australians Agency’s Budget 2024-25: Delivering better outcomes for First Nations people fact sheet.

Identifying options for, and design of, production incentives and other demand side measures to support a domestic low carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) industry, as part of a Future Made in Australia; building on the expansion of the Guarantee of Origin Scheme; and the Future Made in Australia Innovation Fund.

Visit the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government’s media release on Investment to deliver a future made in Australia.

Fast tracking implementation of the Guarantee of Origin for hydrogen and progressing the development of green metals certification, including iron, steel and aluminium.

Visit the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s Guarantee of Origin scheme.

Providing additional resources to boost the capability of the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner, setting up a voluntary national developer scheme and ensure support for regional communities affected by the changes in energy generation.

Visit the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s Community Engagement Review.

Accelerating the growth of Australia’s hydrogen industry by expediting project development, making renewable hydrogen available sooner, and building scale to reduce production costs over time.

NOTE: Subject to passage of legislation.

Visit the Treasury’s consultation on Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive.

Supporting innovation, commercialisation, pilot and demonstration projects and early-stage development in priority sectors such as green metals, renewable hydrogen, low carbon liquid fuels and renewable energy technology manufacturing such as batteries. The fund will be administered by ARENA.

Visit the Federal Budget’s Budget Paper No. 2.

Supporting investment and innovation in renewables and clean energy technologies to achieve net zero, The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is responsible for providing grants and and delivering key Government programs, including several under the Future Made in Australia agenda.

Visit the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Record funding for ARENA to supercharge Australia’s net zero transition.

Strengthening environmental assessments and approvals for renewable energy, transmission and critical minerals projects, delivering additional regional plans and undertaking targeted science to improve the environmental data used in decision making.

Visit the Minister for the Environment and Water media releases on Advancing a Nature Positive Australia.

Promoting the development of battery manufacturing capabilities through grants and production incentives to improve supply chain resilience in Australia and support emissions reduction.

Visit the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s Battery Breakthrough Initiative.

Driving battery manufacturing in Australia through the Australian Made Battery Manufacturing Precinct.

Visit the Department of Industry, Science and Resources’ Priority 1: Manufacturing.

Progressing feasibility studies for common user mineral processing facilities.

Visit the Department of Industry, Science and Resources’ Investments to capitalise on Australia’s critical minerals and the global clean energy transition.

Exploring solar value chain opportunities that could be generated from developing a green polysilicon industry in Australia, including through export and cooperative international opportunities.

Visit the Federal Budget’s Budget Paper No. 2.

Providing a refundable tax incentive of 10 per cent of relevant processing and refining costs for Australia’s 31 critical minerals.

NOTE: Subject to passage of legislation.

Visit the Treasury’s consultation on Critical minerals production tax incentive.

Advising on longer term opportunities for the NAIF to continue to deliver economic outcomes for northern Australia.

Visit the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts’ 2024 Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility Act Review.

Establishing a 'front door' to support the development of major investment proposal projects aligned to Australia’s national interest and the Future Made in Australia agenda.

Visit the Treasury’s Future Made in Australia.

Improving the competitiveness of the Australian economy by working with trade partners to support global rules to address unfair competition caused by market-distorting industrial policies and to negotiate benchmarks for trade in high quality critical minerals.

Visit the Federal Budget’s Budget Paper No. 2.

Strengthening and streamlining Australia’s foreign investment framework, including to ensure faster processing for low-risk investment applications and appropriate scrutiny of high-risk investment applications.

Visit the Federal Budget’s Budget Paper No. 2.

Encourage and facilitate the private sector investment needed to enable Australia to harness new opportunities in the global energy transition and build a stronger, more resilient economy.

Visit the Federal Budget’s Budget Paper No. 2.