Tag: Australian resources
Treasurer Troy Buswell resigns due to breakdown
The ministerial career of Western Australia’s treasurer Troy Buswell has come to an abrupt end as the former Leader of the Opposition resigned his...
New hard rock drilling simulator could enhance shale gas drilling techniques
Curtin University petroleum engineering researchers are using a high-speed drilling simulator to replicate the industry method of drilling deep boreholes in tight gas formations...
Mining boom makes the rich even richer
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University released a report which showed the mining boom has generated up to 65% more wealth for...
BHP Billiton edges closer to switching to owner-operated model
BHP Billiton has announced that it will relieve of duty the last contractor working on its Pilbara iron ore mines, thus continuing the trend...
BlueScope releases 2014 half year results
BlueScope reported a $3.7 million net profit after tax (NPAT) for the first half of FY2014, a $27.5 a million improvement in financial performance...
Driving research and delivering results for Australia
The Federal Government has appropriated $186 million to create three new Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) and extend four existing CRCs to encourage research that...
$60 million investment to secure the future for Tork hygiene products
SCA has completed the $60 million expansion of its Kawerau Tissue Facility in New Zealand which includes a new 14,500 square-metre tissue conversion hall,...
AMWU calls on the Government to draw up detailed manufacturing plan to save Australian...
The demise of Forge, the Alcoa closures and offshoring at Sensis have alerted the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) to urge the Federal Government...
CFMEU claims a new Senate election in WA would be a referendum on jobs
Michael O’Connor, National Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), claims that a new Senate election in West Australia would be...
BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities contributes A$1 million to Australian War Memorial
BHP Billiton Sustainable Communities has donated A$1 million to support the major redevelopment of the Memorial’s First World War galleries and further the process...
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Sydney to spotlight the latest in manufacturing at AMW 2024
With the Australian Manufacturing Week (AMW) 2024 fast approaching, Sydney is set to become the epicentre of groundbreaking innovations in the advanced manufacturing sector.
