Simon Birmingham was wearing his education minister hat with his SA senator jersey yesterday, announcing the snappily named Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production. The University of Adelaide based centre will work with Charles Sturt U and partner organisations on “industry challenges” “plus cutting production costs and improving quality.

For a $4m investment it’s a cost-effective announcement compared to the huge amounts of defence production money going into SA Chris Pyne announces (below).