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More can be done on climate change :Environment Business 9/9/2008

Professor Ross Garnaut's recommendation for a 10% cut in Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 was put forward with the acknowledgement that it did not go far enough to achieve ...

Minister for Resources plans bright new future with China 9/4/2008

The Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson AM MP, has detailed Australia's strong relationship with China in a speech to the Australia-China Mining and Minerals Industry ...

Peak business group calls for action to fix govt and help workers 9/3/2008

Swift and bipartisan action is needed to streamline government, minimise waste and mismanagement and help hard working Australian businesses get on with the job, according to NSW’s ...

Aust PMI®: Manufacturing sector has full quarter of contraction 9/2/2008

Manufacturing activity remained below the key 50.0 level separating expansion from contraction in August, with the Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian ...

Neighbourhood Watch: Closer economic ties to be with ASEAN 9/1/2008

Simon Crean is a born negotiator. As a young official with the Storeman and Packers Union (now the Nation Union of Workers) he famously negotiated a major case in the wool stores, ...

Ai Group submission on national renewable energy targets 8/26/2008

The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) is Australia's leading industry organisation representing 10,000 employers in manufacturing, construction, automotive, telecommunications, ...

New intelligent grid could be Australia's future energy supply 8/22/2008

An advanced electricity network, which uses distributed energy resources – local, low emission and renewable power – is the vision of a national, collaborative research cluster for ...

Self-assembling polymer arrays can improve data storage 8/19/2008

"In the past 20 to 30 years, researchers have been able to shrink the size of devices and the size of the patterns that you need to make those devices, following the use of the same ...

Manufacturer activity continued to weaken during July, says AIG 8/18/2008

Manufacturing activity continued to weaken in July, with the Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) ...

Aussies play game very well behind scenes at Beijing Olympics 8/13/2008

As ‘The Airport Economist’ I get around a bit and am actually contributing this commentary from Beijing, a city in the midst of the frenzy of the 2008 Olympic Games. Source: Tim ...

Going the distance - Aust exporters going with the Olympic spirit 8/11/2008

The Olympic Games are upon us again and the world’s eyes turn to Beijing as China has its long awaited turn to play host to the world’s athletes. Source: Tim Harcourt.

Research looks into storage of CO2 deep underground 8/6/2008

The release of the Garnaut Review and the Government’s Green Paper have highlighted the need for further research into safe and economical technologies to reduce greenhouse gas ...

New free trade agreement between Australia and Chile 8/1/2008

Australia has signed a new free trade agreement (FTA) with the South American nation of Chile. The pact with Chile is the first FTA under the new Rudd Labor Government. Source: Tim ...

CSIRO's new wireless technology to help people in emergencies 8/1/2008

CSIRO is developing new wireless technologies for locating, tracking, sensing and communicating in areas where global positioning systems (GPS) do not work.

Green Paper ticks right boxes but questions remain unanswered 7/28/2008

“The Green Paper on the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) ticks the right boxes and shows the Government has heard many of the central concerns raised by business,” ...

Plastics eco-sustainable coating technology wins major award 7/24/2008

The development of a new, ‘eco-sustainable’ coating technology for plastics has won CSIRO and its project partner, Dulux Powder Coatings, one of Australia’s leading environmental ...

Hydrogen for fuel to prevent leaving carbon footprint -research 7/18/2008

"Other researchers have developed ways to produce hydrogen with mind-boggling efficiency, but their approaches are very high cost," says Craig A. Grimes, professor of electrical ...

Next big leap in overall business performance - EV management 7/16/2008

Much comment has been made about the problems faced by companies in manufacturing and industry. These problems are real and growing, leading to manufacturers going overseas or sourcing ...

Industry seeks balanced approach to climate change issues 7/15/2008

“The Garnaut report released recently moves Australia a critical step closer to an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), but given the times we are in it’s important that we keep to the ...

Symposium looks at opportunities from the information explosion 7/8/2008

A symposium has been organised by CSIRO and the Statistical Society of Australia will explore how technology is generating masses of information and creating exciting home-grown ...

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