Industry News

A daily multivitamin may help keep the doctor at bay as well as keeping your mood up, according to new research released by the Swinburne University of Technology.

The New South Wales Government has announced a suite of reforms of the State’s public sector and middle management in a bid to ‘better focus government resources on the frontline’.

The New South Wales Government has announced reforms which it says will improve the integrity of the state’s public service.

The New South Wales Government has announced $200,000 in funding to assist women into non-tradition trades.

The Federal Government founded Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute has opened its first Chinese office in Beijing.

Mineral sands miner Lynas has announced sweeping changes to its senior executive and Board, with Nicholas Curtis stepping down from the role of Chief Executive.

Researchers have begun work in laboratories that may soon yield answers to some of the most important questions surrounding human performance: how sleep affects how we operate.

The ACT Government has announced it has accepted all of the 28 recommendations of the Getting Home Safely report into the Territory’s construction industry.

WorkCover New South Wales has issued a reminder to businesses to pay extra attention to the needs of young workers after two teenage apprentices were seriously injured last week.

WorkCover Queensland has issued an urgent warning to workers in rural areas to work safetly during the wet season, which still has a few months still to go.

Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest citizen, is now the richest woman in the Asia-Pacific region, and is well on her way to becoming the richest woman in the world according to Forbes Magazine.

The Victorian Government has announced it will increase funding to improve the state’s highest risk roads and intersections to $1 billion over the next 10 years.

The Transport Workers Union has hailed the new workplace agreement struck with United Parcel Service (UPS), saying it will ensure working conditions, standards and pay rates are kept high.

The Federal Government has announced it will invest an extra $41.1 million in a new National Partnership agreement to boost literacy and numeracy results in Victorian Schools.

Inflation levels have remained relatively flat in February, according to the TD Securities – Melbourne Institute Monthly Inflation Gauge.

The job ad market is showing tentative signs of life, according to the latest monthly statistics released by the ANZ bank.

Adelaide has been named the country’s most liveable city for the third year running, dominating other state’s capital cities in a poll conducted by the Property Council of Australia.

The Federal Government has announced it will commit funding to towards the Westconnex road project, subject to a number of conditions outlined by the Prime Minister.

Over 80 per cent of households in the Brunswick area, the first are of Melbourne to enjoy the rollout of National Broadband Network (NBN) services, agree that that the initiative is a positive step.

ABS Building Approvals show that the number of dwellings approved fell 2.4 per cent in January 2013, in seasonally adjusted terms, and has fallen for two months.