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The Key Capability Area Funding supported the development of projects that make a major contribution to the development of the ACT's Key Capability Areas of cyber security, renewable energy, space and spatial information, plant and agricultural sciences, healthy and active living and further education partnerships.

A strong and sustainable economy is essential to meet the needs of the Canberra community now and into the future. It is essential for the ACT to grow its economy by diversifying the non-public service sector. The education and research sector, and the sector specialisations and growth building assets within it, have been identified as a primary driver of long term wealth creation and jobs in the ACT economy.

The Key Capability Area Funding is part of the Government's election commitment to "provide funding to boost the capabilities in the Territory's key areas of strength."

In Confident & Business Ready: Building on Our Strengths, the ACT Government also committed to an economic development focus in its relationship with the higher education and research sector. In particular, the Government undertook to work with the institutions to support ongoing development of areas of strength and to stimulate economic growth in the ACT's Key Capability Areas.

The Priority Investment Program is a competitive funding program aimed at facilitating collaboration between the ACT Government, industry, research and tertiary education sectors to attract investment and grow priority sectors of Canberra's economy. (…)
The Program will target known priority sectors of cyber security, space, defence, renewable energy, agri-technology and education; areas where Canberra has known and established strengths. The Progam's design provides flexibility to enable the ACT Government to respond to other emerging investment opportunities that demonstrate strong potential, including from non-priority areas.

The NSW Government's Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) introduced linkages between shares and catch or effort, giving fishers the ability to invest in their business with more certainty than ever before, and ensuring the long-term viability and sustainability of the NSW commercial fishing industry.

The purpose of the above subsidies and Grant were to offset the impact of the various stages of the Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) by:
• Assisting fishers to either exit the industry, purchase new shares, seek independent advice or obtain retraining, and assisting nominated fishers to establish themselves.
• Easing the burden of commercial fishery management fees & fishing boat licence fees during the BAP period.
• Assisting Fishing Cooperatives to adjust to changes in the industry by extending & subsidising leases on Crown Land.
• Promoting best practice, improving social licence with the broader community, and upskilling of commercial fishers.
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To provide bona-fide aquaculture businesses that are impacted by a natural disaster or disease event with short term (12 months) relief from NSW DPI aquaculture permit and lease fees and charges.

This program aims to achieve:
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• Environment - the environmental condition of the land is improved as a result of the capital works.
• Natural Resources - the value or quality of natural resources are improved as a result of the capital works.

The SIF is an incentive-based initiative to assist businesses within the seafood sector in NSW to identify and address risks to their business, improve permanent assets and infrastructure, ensure long term productivity and sustainable use of the marine, estuarine and land-based environment, while aiding in building resilience to changes in seasonal conditions. The availability of loans is subject to funds being available.

The low interest rate loans are intended to enable the fishing and aquaculture industries to focus on long term business profitability and long term benefits for the sustainability of the marine, estuarine and land-based environment. The low interest loans assist investment in four key areas:

• Preparedness: risk reduction and adaptability to changing seasonal conditionals and climatic events.
• Environment: promoting environmentally sustainable fishing and farming infrastructure, methodologies and equipment to minimise impact on the environment.
• Fishing and Aquaculture Farming Equipment and Assets: replacing unsafe or inefficient assets and equipment to ensure business best practice, legal requirements, and safety and environmental standards are met.
• Transport & Logistics: ensuring that product reaches markets in optimum condition through holding tanks and refrigeration units, new transport systems, and new market software.

Extreme weather events such as severe storms, flooding, bushfires and hailstorms can damage farming operations. The Natural Disaster Loan - Primary Producers scheme provides loans to eligible primary producers (including fishers) in rural and regional NSW who are directly affected by a natural disaster and in urgent and genuine need of assistance. This scheme is not compensatory and is intended to enable primary producers to resume their normal farming and business operations following a natural disaster. Several types of natural disaster transport subsidy are intended to assist with the transport of stock at significant risk in terms of animal welfare.

Natural disaster Recovery Grant provide immediate relief to eligible primary producers, small businesses and non-profit organisations, for clean-up and restoration costs in the aftermath of a declared extreme natural disaster. Detailed eligibility requirements must be met as specified in scheme guidelines.

The Forest Industries Innovation Fund (FIIF) is part of the NSW Government's Forestry Industry Roadmap. The FIIF is designed to help improve the profitability of the NSW timber industry and drive employment growth, drive new investment and innovation to enhance the NSW forest industry and position the NSW forest industry to adjust and capitalize on new opportunities.

The FIIF aims to foster the development and adoption of innovative new technologies, approaches or products to increase sustainable economic growth and support jobs in regional areas to:

• improve the industry's capacity to meet current timber demands;
• support investment in new technology that:

o optimises efficiency and cost effectiveness of wood production and log and residue processing to improve the sector's productivity and financial sustainability; and
o respond to a changing wood supply resource.

• promote a better understanding of the timber resource that is available into the future;
• promote the sustainable management of NSW forests (...)

The Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027 outlines a ten-year reform agenda for the sustainable management of Queensland fisheries. As part of this strategy, vessel tracking capability will be required on all commercial fishing boats by 2020, with units to be installed on net, line and crab commercial fishing boats by 1 January 2019.

To foster the development of a more productive and sustainable rural and regional sector in Queensland by assisting primary producers to develop and improve sustainable enterprises; and to improve energy efficiency by uptake of current and renewable technologies.