Australian Industry
Part 2: Local participation targets are failing – tender overload is breaking local content procurement
Part 2 of our 4-part 2026 supply chain series looks at why tender overload is breaking local participation outcomes. When local content procurement relies on wide-open tenders and filters too late, buyers get buried in evaluation and suppliers waste time chasing poor-fit work. This article explains how pre-qualification and capability-based filtering can reduce noise, speed decisions, and make outcomes clearer for suppliers.
South Australia labour hire licensing changes: what the expanded scope means for your business
South Australia is significantly expanding the reach of its labour hire licensing scheme, and these South Australia labour hire licensing changes are set to reshape how businesses engage talent.
Why Making Suppliers Register for Every Project Is Slowing Industry Down
Across Australia, governments and major projects are working hard to improve supplier engagement, strengthen local industry capability, and streamline procurement. Yet despite these ambitions, an outdated sourcing practice persists in the industry, a manual supplier registration process that requires suppliers to re-register for every single project.
Rethink Market Intelligence: Reporting 2.0 Launched
AusDIP Reporting 2.0 is now live in AusDIP – providing real-time, anonymised insights into what’s happening across the Australian defence industry.
Advanced Manufacturing is Australia’s Next Growth Engine: BenchOn Launches New Capabilities.
Australia is making again. But this time it’s not about competing on cheap inputs or scale alone — it’s about advanced manufacturing: the smart integration…
Australian Defence Industry Events in 2025 (Updated)
Discover the must-attend defence industry events in 2025, including the ADM Space Summit, ADM Congress, and AUKUS Pillar II Conference. Learn how to connect with decision-makers, showcase your capabilities, and secure your place in the defence supply chain.
The Australian Digital Defence Industry Matrix has landed on BenchOn!
After 8 years of R&D and working collaboratively with our thousands of clients, BenchOn has launched the next evolution in Defence Industry connectivity – The…
BenchOn launches ‘Defence Industry Vision 2030’ at the Indo Pacific Maritime Conference
At the major Australian Maritime conference, Indo Pacific 23, held 7-9 November 23, BenchOn officially launched it’s ‘Defence Industry Vision 2030’. A vision for how Defence, Industry and Academia can seamlessly come together to provide Defence the data insights it needs to make the best capability and funding decisions, but to also link the people, products and services in our sovereign industry together to create concentrated industry capability to meet the expected, yet unknown demand.
Registrations open for Meet the Primes
This year at the Indo Pacific Conference 23, in conjunction with our friends at Hays and Michael Fairweather & Associates, BenchOn is running events to…