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Australian company Shamic Sheetmetal in Victoria has cut wage costs after installing a Finn-Power Night Train FMS ‘ lights out’ robotic manufacturing system.

Caltex has forecast profits to plummet by 50 percent in the first half 2010 as a result of continued volatility in Australia’s exchange rates.

Foster’s Group Limited (Foster’s) has signed long-term distribution agreements with Southern Wine & Spirits in three of the largest U.S. markets, with the new contracts effective July 1st.

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has reached agreement with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto over increased iron ore royalties, mocking Kevin Rudd’s proposed RSPT.

Tourism Australia has launched a $150 million global tourism campaign There’s Nothing Like Australia in an effort to rebuild Brand Australia after the failed Where the bloody hell are you campaign.

There is a deep sense of concern within the Australian business community that the long awaited revamp of the Federal Government’s R&D Tax Concession is actually little more than a thinly disguised mechanism for reigning in the Government’s estimated annual $1.4 billion spend on the program.

Austrade has released a new report “Sustainable IT, Australia’s Industry Capability & Value Proposition” highlighting Australia as an ICT leader at CeBIT Sydney.

CeBIT Sydney organiser Hannover Fairs Australia have been promised full support from the NSW Government through to 2013 by Premier Kristina Keneally.

The Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) Scheme has been fundamental to the success of Australian SMEs export performance and funding needs to be reconsidered critics claim.

Joe Hockey insists that Labor’s Resource Super Profits Tax has caused the AU$ to collapse despite Kevin Rudd instead blaming the Liberal Party’s negative talk for the fall.

Kristina Keneally will defend jobs in regional NSW threatened by the Kevin Rudd’s proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) the Premier claimed yesterday.

Australia Unlimited – the brand, has been launched today by Federal Trade Minister Simon Crean in the Australia Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.

The West Australian Liberal Party is campaigning hard on the resource super profits tax, with a new campaign which hopes to win back key seats from Labor.

‘Australia Unlimited’ is Australia’s new national brand to represent Australian quality, innovation and service worldwide announced by Minister for Trade Simon Crean.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a draft decision proposing to authorise Santos QNT Pty Ltd and ten other oil producers to jointly market their oil produced in the Surat Basin and Denison Trough in Queensland.

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) is meeting with Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Treasurer Andrew Fraser to discuss their opposition to Kevin Rudd’s Super Profit Tax.

The Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) is leading a trade mission to Shanghai in July this year, the first of its kind following successful missions to Hong Kong and New York.

Tourism Australia has big plans for Shanghai World Expo 2010, playing host to around 60 corporate event buyers from across North Asia on June 18 as part of World Expo 2010.

Australian fashion stationery label kikki.K has been nominated for the Retail Innovation award in the World Retail Awards, to be held in Germany in April. Nominated by the Worth Global Style Network (WGSN), the fashion and style industry’s leading resource for trend analysis and forecasting, kikki.K has the personal backing of WGSN’s managing director Asia […]

A Sydney company’s technology has won the heart of the world diamond industry, where it is being used to monitor thousands of precious gems, Minister for State and Regional Development Ian Macdonald said. Magellan Technology’s electronic tracking technology has been installed in one of the world’s top diamond grading houses, the HRD Antwerp Institute of […]