Tag: Australia

The Kochie’s Business Builders Live series will broadcast live to cinemas across regional and rural Australia, including Tamworth, Wangaratta and Ballarat.

Hays Recruitment is warning Australian businesses of the growing list of skills now in short supply in Australia’s available labour market as the company releases its October-December Hays Quarterly Report.

Australians are placing themselves at risk of identity theft, with a recent Newspoll survey finding 75 percent of Australians regularly throw away highly sensitive information such as utility bills, bank statements, expired credit cards and application forms, without shredding or disposing of them safely.

Employees in Ballarat have through the Fair Work Ombudsman been back-paid over $53,000 after an FWO ombudsman investigation found they had been underpaid.

Australia’s construction industry continues to contract, with September marking the fourth consecutive month that construction activity has fallen.

Following a number of viral and successful YouTube parody videos, Theodore Saidden, creator of “Superwog”, decided to take things to the next level and capitalise on his success – by selling t-shirts.

Australian businesses expect a strong December quarter, with Christmas trading to bring the growth many businesses have been waiting for, according to the latest Dun and Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey.

Optus have released their Business Social Media Index in conjunction with the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) has found similarly poor uptake of social media among business (28%) to MYOB’s business monitor report released Tuesday (18%).

Cairns Airport has been redeveloped and opened ahead of schedule and was opened by Deputy Premier Paul Lucas today on the back of the launch of Tourism Queensland’s new international brand, ‘Queensland, Where Australia Shines’.

HTC’s Aria Android powered mobile phone will launch with Optus Mobile in Australia on the telco’s range of consumer and business plans starting at $49/month.