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Trade Deficit Down as Coal Exports Surge
Australia has rebounded from its worst ever trade deficit as resource exports recover from the devastation of the Queensland floods.The nation's export performance is set to sizzle in coming months - with economists even predicting an eventual trade surplus - as Asian nations pay more for key commodities.The trade...
Tags: Coal, Australia, Economist, Surplus, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, AAP
News items 2008-05-06
BHP Approves Worsley Alumina Expansion
By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters UK) - BHP Billiton (BHP) (BLT) said it would spend nearly $2 billion (1 billion pounds) expanding an alumina refinery in Australia, saying the outlook for the powder-like aluminium-making material was strong. The expenditure, long on the drawing boards, is the...
Tags: Australia, Refinery, BHP, BHP Billiton, Rio, Aluminium Price, Corporate Governance, Blount International Inc.
News items 2008-04-30
IAG Says QBE Takeover Not a Given
Insurance Australia Group Ltd (IAG) chairman James Strong says it is not certain that QBE Insurance Group Ltd, or anyone else, will buy the company."This is a very significant company. It's got tremendous market share in Australia. So it's certainly not a question of regarding ourselves as sitting here...
Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Australia, IAG, Strategy, Insurance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, AAP
News items 2008-04-20
australia's Westpac Bids $17.6 Billion For St George
By Miranda Maxwell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Westpac Banking Corp Ltd (WBC) launched a $17.6 billion all-share bid for smaller rival St George Bank Ltd (SGB) in a tie-up that would create Australia's biggest bank by market value. Analysts said the deal could trigger...
Tags: Bank, Australia, St George, Westpac Banking Corp. Ltd., Bank Customer, Takeover Plan, Bendigo Bank, Southwest Georgia Financial Corp.
News items 2008-05-12
BG Says Talks With Origin Inconclusive But Ongoing
LONDON (Reuters UK) - BG Group (BG) on Friday said discussions over its $12 billion (6.2 billion pound) bid approach to Australia's Origin (ORG) are ongoing but so far inconclusive. BG, valued at around $85 billion, said on April 30 it had approached Origin, Australia's...
Tags: Bank, Australia, BG, Origin, Financial Services, Retail, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Pound
News items 2008-05-09
australia Says No Block to China Resource Investment
By Michael Perry SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Sunday no Chinese companies have been told to withdraw applications to buy into Australian resource firms, despite media reports Canberra was pressuring China to back away from such investment. China's miners and steelmakers are...
Tags: Australia, Canberra, raw material, coal, China, Chinese company, Sydney, trader, investment, government, Thomson Reuters Corp., asset, TV
News items 2008-04-26
Westpac May Offer Premium For St George
Westpac Banking Corporation is in talks with St George Bank Ltd about a merger that will create Australia's biggest financial services company.A combined Westpac and St George would create a $64 billion entity, bigger than the sharemarket capitalisation of either Commonwealth Bank of Australia Ltd or National Australia Bank...
Tags: Bank, Merger, Australia, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Investment, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-12
Aussie Trade Deficit at $2.736b in March
Better weather in Australia's resources rich states helped exports spring back to life in March, resulting in an improved trade deficit, economists say.The Australian balance of goods and services was a deficit of $2.736 billion, seasonally adjusted, in March, from a downwardly revised $3.261 billion in February, figures from...
Tags: Coal, Australia, Interest Rate, Economist, March, February, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-05-06
Property Prices Grew Slightly in Q1
Property prices around Australia rose only marginally in the first quarter of this year, but returns still outpaced the stock market by a big margin, new figures show.The value of property rose 1.46 per cent in the three months ended March 30 and posting an annualised return of six...
Tags: City, Australia, Property Price, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance, AAP
News items 2008-04-30
China Miner Yanzhou Seeks australia Buys
Yanzhou Coal Mining Co Ltd, China's No.3 coal producer by market value, aims to buy mines in Australia to ramp up its annual coal capacity there to 10 million tonnes in the next few years.The miner is part of a wave of Chinese mineral and resource firms buying up...
Tags: Coal, Australia, China Miner Yanzhou, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, REUTERS
News items 2008-04-23
australia's Port Expansion 'not Enough'
Despite planned expansions, the ability of Australian seaports to handle increased coal shipments is unlikely to improve in the next few years, the head of the world's largest coal producer says."It's not going to happen," Gregory Boyce, chairman and chief executive of Peabody Energy Corp told Wall Street analysts.During...
Tags: Coal, Australia, Congestion, Government, Construction, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, REUTERS
News items 2008-04-23
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, knowledge, Norway, Australia, survey, word-processing, database, information technology, industry, e-mail, 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
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, financial, marketing
Case studies
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
Rio First Quarter Refined Copper Output Falls
By James Regan SYDNEY (Reuters UK) - Miner Rio Tinto (RIO) (RIO) posted a mixed first quarter production report as it races to meet strong global commodities demand and attempts to fight off an unwanted suitor. Rio, target of the unwanted $140 billion bid by rival...
Tags: Copper, Australia, Quarter, Blount International Inc., Oukbs, Rio
News items 2008-04-15
Consumer Involvement in Quality Use of Medicines (QUM) Projects - Lessons From australia
It is essential that knowledge gained through health services research is collated and made available for evaluation, for policy purposes and to enable collaboration between people working in similar areas. The Australian Quality Use of Medicine (QUM) on-line, web-based project database, known as the QUMmap, was designed to meet these...
Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, BioMed Central, Australia, health care, collaboration, knowledge, database, Web
White papers 2005-12-01
Rethinking Work and Family Policy: The Making and Taking of Parental Leave in australia
Despite the continued increase in female participation rates, Australia remains one of only two developed nations in the world without a paid maternity leave scheme. While research interest and public policy debate about paid maternity leave entitlements continues, little is known about the actual utilization of the 52 weeks unpaid...
Tags: Australia
White papers 2005-05-25
Employee Share Ownership Schemes in australia: A Survey of Key Issues and Themes
This paper surveys key issues and themes surrounding ESO schemes in Australia. It explores the varied policy rationales for these schemes, noting both broad bipartisan support and a generally limited conception of their fundamental purpose. The paper also outlines the current state of empirical research on their incidence and effects....
Tags: University of Melbourne, Australia, survey
White papers 2005-04-08
Financial and Management Practice in a Voluntary Medical Insurance Company in the Developed World
The paper provides a summative evaluation of the financial and management practice of voluntary health insurance in UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland from the practitioner's view point. From a statistical perspective, the paper concentrates on Australia, as one of the few environments where there is a wealth of publicly...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, University of Pennsylvania, public health, Australia, health care, health insurance, financial, environment
White papers 2005-03-15
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