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Australian manufacturing has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. It is a hub for research and development, capital investment and innovative businesses and products. It is our sixth largest industry, produces $137 billion of value-added output and employs 930,000 people. It generated 12.4% of Australia’s exports and 7.9% of our capex investment in 2024, despite being only 5.1% of GDP.
Ai Group’s report on manufacturing explores the industry’s unique strengths and challenges with analysis of key performance factors such as economic and demand conditions, cost pressures, trade exposure, workforce needs and investment.
For more information email: economics@aigroup.com.au
Contacts for this report:
Jeffrey Wilson is Head of Research and Economics at the Australian Industry Group.
He leads our economics team and provides strategic direction in developing the research program to support our advocacy, service delivery and policy activities.
Dr Wilson specialises in international economic policy, with a focus on how trade and investment shape the Australian business environment.
Colleen Dowling is Ai Group’s Senior Research Analyst and has contributed to much of the organisation’s proprietary research, establishing a strong evidence base for our advocacy for Australian industry.
With more than 10 years of research into conditions affecting businesses, Colleen has a solid understanding of the challenges and opportunities businesses face. Prior to Ai Group, she worked in industry in the wholesale and retail sectors as well as tertiary education.
Colleen holds a Master of Business Management and a Bachelor of Arts, both from Monash University.
Dr Jeenat Binta Jabbar is an Economist at the Australian Industry Group, specialising in labour, migration, wellbeing, poverty, and inequality. With her experiences in NGOs, non-profits, humanitarian, and academia, Jeenat worked for incorporating and improving evidence-based policies and programs.
Jeenat has a background in business informatics combined with economics in her Master program at Ural Federal University, Russia. She completed her PhD in Economics from RMIT university.
