‘Game Changer’: Albanese Government Pumps $50 Million into World-First Artificial Heart

The journey to innovation kicked off when an Australian inventor teamed up with his father to craft heart prototypes using Bunnings parts.

3D illustration of a heart in transplant in a human body. Explode/Shutterstock

The Albanese Government is spending $50 million (US$32.8 million) to create and sell the world’s most advanced artificial heart, a breakthrough technology poised to halve global deaths from heart failure.

The technology mimics a natural heart using advanced magnetic levitation, providing heart failure patients with over ten years of an active lifestyle for the first time.