North Ryde. Tenants wanted for defence hub

The NSW Office of Defence is calling for expressions of interest from defence-based business in NSW to become tenants in the government’s new $50 million high-tech defence hub, at Macquarie Park, which is part of a $75 million initiative to boost the state’s defence industry, “The NSW government’s commitment is for NSW to secure 30 per cent of Australia’s in-country defence spend by 2019. We aim to create more than 1,500 new jobs in defence-related industries by 2013,” said NSW Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development, Eric Roozendaal.