Tag: Australia

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

Targus has launched a range of iPad cases to coincide with the official iPad launch in Australia on May 28th, offering protection and style for iPad users across multiple product lines.

Australian businesses will receive a significant boost in support for research and development, under new R&D tax incentive legislation introduced into Parliament today.

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.

Australia’s acute skills shortage received a significant boost, with $661 million in funds allocated in the Federal Budget to address training, apprenticeship and adult literacy issues.

Digital free-to-air TV signals will be broadcast to those in remote and regional Australia from a satellite to cost taxpayers $375.4 million over the next 12 years.

CSR has posted a net loss for 2010 of $111.7 million, an improvement on the $326.5 million loss in 2009, a 66 percent improvement for the company.

Amongst the Budget announcements last night was the unveiling of the most significant changes to GST since its introduction by former PM John Howard in 2000.

Telstra’s iPad prepaid data plans are out, but highlight how much the company is prepared to rip off their non-iPad prepaid wireless broadband customers. With iPad prepaid plan prices half what their wireless broadband customers pay.

Telstra iPad plans have gone prepaid, offering data only plans for the device without contracts, hoping the performance of the NextG network is enough to keep users from using other 3G providers.