Environment Minister, Australian Government

Murray Watt

Roles

Role	Organisation	Sources
Environment Minister	Australian Government	@AuManufacturing (18 Aug 2025), @AuManufacturing (30 Oct 2023)
Minister for Agriculture	Federal Government	GrainCorp Ventures, Beef Central / Grain Central

Coverage

Stories naming Murray Watt. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

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Best of the week — the five most popular stories among readers, August 11 – August 15, 2025

Weekly roundup of the publisher's five most-read stories: Victorian government grants to eleven manufacturers, Kongsberg defence export contracts, a federal grant for Iondrive, battery maker Energy Renaissance entering administration, and NSW recycling grants.

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Manufacturing news briefs – stories you might have missed

Roundup of Australian manufacturing items: DroneShield's Ukraine orders, CEO appointments at Bridgewest Perth Pharma and Sentinel Boats, SPC's community capital raise, LBT's underwritten raising, a university defence consortium, wine grants and new facilities.

Grant $2.9m

GrainCorp awarded $2.9M to progress world-class sustainable livestock feed trials

GrainCorp received a $2.93 million federal grant through the MERiL program's third round to run large-scale dairy and beef trials of low-emission feed supplements, working with FutureFeed, CSIRO, University of Queensland and Agriculture Victoria Services.

GrainCorp Ventures 15 Mar 2023 GrainCorp Agriculture Victoria CSIRO Future Feed University of Queensland Federal Government Chris Bowen Klaus Pamminger Murray Watt

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$28.9m in grants issued to help improve soil carbon technology

Eight projects share 28.9 million dollars in Australian government grants under the National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge, funding cheaper technologies for measuring soil organic carbon, with ministers Bowen and Watt announcing the recipients.

Beef Central / Grain Central 22 Nov 2022 Agrimix Agriprove The University of Queensland AgriFutures Duxton Farms Elders FarmLab Federal Government Meat & Livestock Australia Mullion Group Queensland University of Technology University of Tasmania University of Western Australia National Soil Carbon Innovation Challenge Chris Bowen Murray Watt

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