AuBJ — February 3 — Qantas has announced plans to tackle rising costs by raising fares, increasing fuel levies and introducing a carbon fee this month. Australia’s flag carrier has endured a torrid time of late and blamed rising fuel costs and newly introduced taxes at home and abroad for the ... Read More

AuBJ — February 3 — Car manufacturer GM Holden has revealed a plan to cut back its South Australia assembly operations to a single shift from May. The second assembly shift at the company’s Elizabeth plant will be axed leading to 150 contract workers losing their jobs in a move that the carmak... Read More

AuBJ — February 2 — Australian businesses spent tens of millions of dollars fighting the incumbent government, according to political funding records for 2010-11 released by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). The AEC’s figures revealed that political parties and independents brought in... Read More

AuBJ — February 2 — Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, has been named as the richest woman in Asia in the Forbes’ latest rich list. According to the business publication, the mining magnate could also be on her way to surpassing Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton as the world’s riches... Read More

AuBJ — February 1 — Demand for skilled workers in the mining industry is at an “all-time high”, according to Queensland Employment Skills and Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe. Speaking ahead of the Queensland Mining and Jobs Expo, which is taking place in Logan this week, Hinchliffe said:... Read More

AuBJ — February 1 — A new report has revealed that there has been an increase in new business registrations, as well as a decline in the exit rate of businesses, over the past two years. The release of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Counts of Australian Businesses, which includes the... Read More

AuBJ — February 1 — One of Australia’s leading figures within the mining and construction equipment freight forwarding sector has described the mining industry as “the backbone of Queensland and a key reason behind Australia’s growth in the last few years”. Skelton Sherborne director Br... Read More

AuBJ — January 31 — The construction of a major business park on the coast of New South Wales would create 7,500 jobs if given the go ahead. Plans for the construction of the A$650 million Bushells Ridge subdivision proposal in the Central Coast region are currently being reviewed by the NSW Go... Read More

AuBJ — January 31 — Junior explorer Argonaut Resources has confirmed that the South Australia Government would support its fight against a ruling banning it from operating on land contested to be an Aboriginal heritage site. The SA Government has applied to the High Court to appeal the judgment ... Read More

AuBJ — January 31 — Labour costs in Australia’s resources sector are the highest in the world according to a leading global mining and energy service specialist. Tony Cruddas, the business leader for global consultancy, engineering and project management company AMEC, said fierce competition f... Read More

AuBJ — January 30 — Perth-based engineering firm Monadelphous Group has brought the value of its new work for the financial year to more than A$1.5 billion after receiving construction contracts from industry giants Rio Tinto and Chevron Corp. The contracts, together worth more than $180 millio... Read More

AuBJ — January 30 — A major A$260 million contract to develop the breakwater and materials offloading facility at Chevron’s Wheatstone Project in Western Australia has been awarded to a joint venture between Thiess and Belgian company BESIX SA. Work on the project at the LNG and domestic gas ... Read More

AuBJ — January 30 — The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has launched a petition calling on the Federal Parliament to continue supporting the local car manufacturing industry, following last week’s announcement that Toyota Australia was to axe 350 jobs. The petition calls f... Read More

AuBJ — January 27 — The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) has prepared a document offering advice to the incoming Queensland government ahead of the state election on March 24. Recommendations made by the not-for-profit association include continuing investment in infrastructure, including m... Read More

AuBJ — January 27 — Toyota’s decision to make 350 workers redundant at its Altona factory in Victoria has been branded “unacceptable” by the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). Ian Jones, AMWU secretary — vehicle division, said that the ‘enforced redundancies’ were agai... Read More

AuBJ — January 27 — Thousands of litres of wine were spilt after a door failed at a Victorian winery. Close to 250,000 litres of wine poured out of a tank at Treasury Wine Estates’ Karadoc winery in the northwest of the state earlier this week. No workers were injured in the spillage, which oc... Read More