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Clouds get blacker for manufacturers
Sydney :: Australia | 2 days ago
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Australian manufacturing has slumped below 1 per cent of GDP for the first time in 60 years of statistics, as the high dollar and the rise of China slowly suffocate confidence in the sector. The Bureau of Statistics reports that capital expenditure by...
Tags: Australian Industry Group, Australia, Sydney, Gross Domestic Product, Business Finance, Cent
Power sector braces for emissions trading
Victoria :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility The Coalition party room meeting, though, failed to decide on whether to support the package and will resume later today. The power sector, the biggest single contributor to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, has been among the most outspoken opponents...
Tags: Australian Financial Reviews, Victoria, emissions trade, Australian Industry Group, power sector, Canada, Loy Yang Power Station Victoria, Emissions trading, TRUenergy, Coal, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Business Finance, Climate change in Australia, Energy in Australia, Carbon finance, Environment
National Green Skills Agreement endorsed
Canberra :: Australia | 8 days ago
Credibility The agreement will give businesses and individuals a valuable opportunity to contribute to a sustainable, low-carbon economy in their workplaces and communities...The agreement is an important milestone on the road to a sustainable, low-carbon economy.
Tags: Australian Industry Group, Australia, Canberra, Vocational education, Australian Qualifications Framework, National Training System, Labor, Alternative education, Higher education, Tertiary education in Australia, Education, Tertiary education, Minister for Education, MCEETYA, Politics, Educational stages, Julia Gillard, Trade union, Mark Arbib, Apprenticeship, Skill, Green politics
LaRouche webcast: The Great Change of 2009
Shanghai :: China | 15 days ago
Credibility The Russia-China agreement puts Australia at a crossroads: do we persist in inflicting British globalisation on ourselves, in the form of more of the free trade/deregulation/privatisation policies under which our once-productive industrial economy has...
Tags: Russia-China, Australian Industry Group, china vital, China, Shanghai, Lyndon LaRouche, LaRouche movement, Globalization, Views of Lyndon LaRouche, Sustainable energy, Green building, Energy economics, Austrade, Economy of Australia, Business Finance, Environment
Services sector jumps back into black
Sydney :: Australia | 25 days ago
Credibility The Australian Industry Group-Commonwealth Bank of Australia performance of services index climbed 5.5 points to 54.8 in October from 49.3 in September and is now above the 50-point level that separates growth from contraction. October's result for the...
Skills shortage looming, warns industry group
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Five-hundred chief executives have told an Australian Industry Group survey they plan to cut 180,000 jobs by mid next year. The survey has found one in four companies plan to slash training by at least 20 per cent and cut the intake of apprentices by...
Rate rises could put recovery 'at risk'
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Australian Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Index increased by 0.3 points to 52 in September, which is its highest level since December 2007. Employment in the manufacturing sector also came closer to stabilising,...
Tags: manufacturing index, highest level, Australian Industry Group
RBA boss flags rate rise
Sydney :: Australia | 2 months ago
Credibility But he has also indicated that rates will soon need to rise from the emergency level of 3 per cent as the economy continues to recover from the global downturn. Giving evidence at the Senate Economics References Committee this morning, Mr Stevens said...
Tags: Reserve Bank of Australia, Glenn Stevens, rate rises, Senate Economics References Committee, governor glenn, THE Reserve Bank, central bank, Australian Industry Group, bank governor, bank boss, Australia, Sydney
Rudd pats Wong on the back
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Wong has been congratulated by her boss for her handling of the emissions trading debate even though Rudd Government was defeated in the Senate last week. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressed his Caucus colleagues in Canberra today and lauded the work...
Tags: climate change, Kevin Rudd, emissions trade, Australian Industry Group, change minister, Penny Wong, prime minister, Mr Rudd, minister kevin
Australia treasury chief warns of "second shockwave"
Canberra :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Australia's top Treasury official on Monday said there were grounds for optimism about the economy but warned a "second shockwave" may yet derail recovery from the global downturn. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry said that while Australia had proved resilient...
Tags: Australian Industry Group, Treasury, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, health insurance, Dr Henry, treasury boss, private health, productivity growth
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