Industry News

Queensland Energy Minister Mark McArdle has chaired the Queensland Consumer and Energy Reference Group, promising a renewed focus on consumer protection and rights.

After three years of intensive planning and research, the CSIRO has and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) have opened the country’s first large-scale rainforest research plot.

Coal will continue to serve as an important contributor to the Australia’s future energy production, according to a new report released by the University of Queensland.

Western Australia has confirmed that there were no fatalities in the state’s mines in 2012, marking the first time in over a century that the state’s mining sector has escaped without a single death.

The Managing Director of the Australian Logistics Council (ALC) has warned a meeting of the nation’s top logistics minds that the industry risks stagnation in productivity gains if the transport reforms proposed by the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) are not fully implemented.

LaTrobe University will be able to examine the fabric of the universe with even greater accuracy following the opening of its new $100 million LaTrobe Institute of Molecular Sciences (LIMS) building.

The South Australian Government has announced it will overhaul the state’s planning system in a bid to establish Adelaide as ‘one of the world’s great small cities’.

Construction project delivery specialist firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has celebrated the opening of the new Penenisula Link freeway in Victoria, marking the first major road project to be delivered by the Availability Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Australia.

The Federal Government has announced it will contribute $504 million to establish 10 new Industry Innovation Precincts in an attempt to drive productivity, improve connections between business and the research sector and modernise the country’s industry to compete more successfully in global markets.

Engineering firm Leighton has posted an underlying profit of $448 million, shrugging off a tough 2012 to focus on a ‘stabilise, rebase and regrow’ strategy.

The Gladstone Ports Coproriation has announced that it will soon commence the search for a new Chief Executive Officer after Leo Zussino steps down in September.

The Queensland Parliament has extended the reporting date for the parliamentary committee conducting the review into the workers’ compensation scheme to May 23 this year.

The Federal Government has announced the appointment of Michael Pezzullo as Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS), and is set to wield a suite of new powers to tackle misconduct and corruption.

The Federal Government has sent final letters to State and Territory Governments detailing the final offers of the Commonwealth’s contribution towards the pay increases for Social and Community Services (SACS) awarded in last year’s Fair Work Australia’s equal pay case.

OHS managers are enjoying a massive boom in salary, according to specialist recruitment firm safesearch, with major regional projects helping drive the nation-wide increase in demand for specialised OHS workers.

Formal qualifications are increasingly becoming the requisite to gain a job in the increasingly well paid and competitive OHS job market, according to a report released by recruitment firm safesearch.

Mineral exports coming through the Burnie port are set to boom after the Riley mine in the North West Coast of the State comes online.

The Tasmanian Government has announced a package of major local government reforms that include new set terms for mayors and full council elections.

The vast majority of employers and managers are considered to be in need of education and training on mental health issues and how to better manage it in the workplace by their employees, according to a new report released by national mental health charity SANE Australia.

South Australians can now recycle their bread bags, biscuit packets, rice and lolly bags after Coles rolled an Australia-first recycling program at 42 supermarkets around metropolitan Adelaide.