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Peak Oil Arrives in Australia: Report
Oil production in Australia has already peaked and the alternative fuels industry needs to be dramatically ramped up in response, an expert research group says.After years of a stop-start approach to ethanol production, Australia is fast running out of time to end its love affair with crude oil, much...
Tags: Australia, Alternative Fuel, AAP
News items 2008-07-22
NZ Outflow to Australia at 19-year High
The net outflow of people from New Zealand to live permanently or long term PLT in Australia reached its highest annual level in 19 years last month.The net outflow to Australia was 31,900 in the June 2008 year, the highest since 32,000 in the May 1989 year. The June...
Tags: Australia, Inflow, NZPA
News items 2008-07-21
Take Out the Garbage | BTalk Australia
Is poor quality data costing you money? Most businesses in Australia believe so but almost half have no idea just how big the problem is. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Matt Glasner, General Manager of Experian QAS for Australia and New Zealand, about how...
Tags: Australia, Podcasts, Storage, Databases, Internet, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Phil Dobbie
Blog posts 2008-07-16
OAMPS Appoints Austbrokers Manager
OAMPS Insurance Brokers have appointed Martin van Rhoon as its head of corporate broking for Australia.OAMPS Insurance Brokers chief executive Peter Blackmore said Mr van Rhoon would help build the company's medium to large client sector of Australia."Martin will help us harness the wealth of expertise within OAMPS, and...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Australia, Mr., Van, OAMPS, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-07-22
Holden Automotive Base Should Stay
If Australia loses its automotive manufacturing industry it is unlikely to ever get it back, Holden chairman and managing director Mark Reuss says.Speaking at the company's launch of its new locally made Sportwagon in Adelaide on Tuesday, Mr Reuss called on the federal government to ensure, through its ongoing...
Tags: Australia, Industry, Mr., Manufacturing Industry, Reuss, Government, Manufacturing, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Strategy, Finance, Management, AAP
News items 2008-07-08
Business Urges COAG to Work Together
The nation's peak business body is urging the federal and state governments to put aside parochial differences, or risk the country being stuck in the 19th century.In an open letter to the Council of Australian Governments COAG, Business Council of Australia president Greig Gailey said Wednesday's meeting in Sydney...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Australia, Benefits, Leadership, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Strategy, Investment, Human Resources, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-07-02
Ausra Has Sunny Future in Australia
An Australian innovation in solar thermal technology is making its way back to local shores from sunny California to capitalise on emerging opportunities in clean power generation.Ausra, Inc - the designer, manufacturer and developer of solar thermal technology for utility-scale solar power and steam applications - has opened an...
Tags: Australia, California, Technology, Ausra, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, AAP
News items 2008-07-15
Australia Returns to Trade Deficit
Australia's trade balance returned to a deficit in May after posting its first surplus in six years the previous month.The nation's trade deficit is predicted to narrow, if not be in the black, in the months ahead once the increases in recent iron ore price contracts flow through, economists...
Tags: Australia, Economist, Mr., Asset Based Security, Surplus, Investment, Manufacturing, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-07-03
Australia, Hong Kong in Retail Fund Deal
Funds managers in Australia and Hong Kong can sell retail funds to each other's markets now that a deal has been struck between their respective corporate watchdogs.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC signed a "declaration of mutual recognition" on Monday with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission...
Tags: Australia, Hong Kong, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware, AAP
News items 2008-07-07
Newcrest Uses $1.6b to Close Hedge Book
Newcrest Mining Ltd, Australia's largest independent gold producer, has been forced to spend more than the $1.5 billion originally estimated to complete the closeout of its hedge book.The gold producer, however, said the $1.67 billion spend to close out the existing four million ounces in the company's hedge book...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Australia, Price, Financial Accounting, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-07-03
Accreditation Scheme Planned For Tourism
The federal government is aiming to rid the tourism industry of "shonky operators" with a new accreditation scheme.Federal Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson said Australian tourism was facing "huge challenges", including the rising price of oil and an increasing unwillingness of travellers to fly long-haul.With these challenges in mind, Mr...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Australia, Industry, Mr., Accreditation, Strategy, Management, AAP
News items 2008-07-09
Garden East Apartments: South Australia
The Hon. John Olsen, Minister for Industry and Manufacturing for the South Australian Government, announced to radio and television audiences the beginning of the Garden East Project in to Adelaide, South Australia. The project is the largest GeoExchange installation anywhere in Australia. The goal is reducing the expense establishing new...
Tags: Geothermal Heat Pump Consortium, Garden, Australia, manufacturing, radio, TV, industry
Case studies
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Investing in Understanding Customers With SAS
Understanding customer behavior is crucial for financial organizations to maintain a competitive edge. Designing models that show customer behavioral patterns is one method of understanding customers and it is this approach that has paid dividends for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, ANZ. ANZ's retail banking business, which incorporates checking...
Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Financial accounting, Australia, SAS Institute, CRM, dividend, banking, credit card, marketing, financial
Case studies
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Management: A Comparison of Law Firms in Norway and Australia
Law firms represent an industry that seems very well suited to knowledge management investigation. Law firms are knowledge intensive, and the use of advanced technology may well transform these organizations in the future. This paper reports results from a survey of Norwegian law firms on the use of information technology...
Tags: Strategy, Litigation, Gale Group, law firm, knowledge management, Norway, knowledge, Australia, survey, word-processing, database, e-mail, information technology, industry, software
White papers
Regulation of Stem Cell Research in Australia
This article outlines the current regulation of stem cell research in Australia. It also provides an explanation of the nationally-consistent principles for the regulation of stem cell research agreed to by the Council of Australian Governments on 5 April 2002. Presently, the regulation of stem cell research in Australia is...
Tags: Regulations, Allens Arthur Robinson, stem-cell, regulation, Australia
White papers
New Home Sales Weaken in May
The impact of high interest rates and growing cost of living pressures continue to be felt in the housing sector, with new home sales falling in May.The Housing Industry Association's HIA new home sales report found sales of houses and units fell five per cent in May.Detached house sales...
Tags: Australia, Interest Rate, Home Sale, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, AAP
News items 2008-07-01
HSBC to Set Up Wealth Management Arm
Global investment bank HSBC will set up a wholesale wealth management business in Australia, to take advantage of the nation's large superannuation market.HSBC will offer global asset management products from its specialist investment businesses, including active management specialist Halbis and quantitative specialist Sinopia, to institutional clients and wholesale platforms.Clients...
Tags: Asset, Australia, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, AAP
News items 2008-06-26
Firms Forced to Keep Greenhouse Accounts
Hundreds of Australia's biggest companies must measure and record their greenhouse-gas emissions from next week as a first step towards an emissions trading scheme ETS.Coal mines, power stations, aluminium smelters, banks, supermarkets and airlines which emit over a certain threshold must keep carbon accounts by law.From October next year...
Tags: Australia, Greenhouse, Carbon, Carbon Account, Federal Government, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-06-26
Australia Now Has 172,000 Millionaires
Another 11,000 Australians became millionaires in 2007 in US dollar terms, helping Australia hold its No.10 position on the global rich list.But instability in world financial markets slowed growth in the numbers joining the millionaires' club and is expected to affect it in 2008 as well.According to a survey...
Tags: Asset, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Australia, Millionaire, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, AAP
News items 2008-06-25
Nestle Sells Desserts to Fonterra
Nestlé Australia has sold its yoghurt and dairy dessert business, including its Echuca factory on the Victorian border, to New Zealand-based Fonterra.Nestlé said under an agreement - effective September 1 - Fonterra will also acquire the long-term rights to manufacture, market and sell Nestlé's yoghurt and dairy dessert brands...
Tags: Nestle, Brand, Australia, Nestlé, Fonterra, Nestlé Australia, Branding, Marketing, AAP
News items 2008-06-24