Posted June 24, 2016 09:20:20 Wall Street bounced back from recent weakness overnight, with investor sentiment boosted by polls showing support for Britain remaining in the European Union had strengthened. Stocks fell most of last week, when it looked as though the campaign to leave the EU might prevail. Investors were concerned about the potential
Email Posted June 23, 2016 17:02:48 Dan Hannagan, the general manager of a privately owned landfill in Cairns, sits on top of a pile of concrete that will be recycled and turned into road base. June 21 2016. ABC Far North: Mark Rigby Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, building-and-construction, environmental-management, land-pollution, environmental-impact, cairns-4870 Source link
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Posted June 23, 2016 17:02:48 Photo: Dan Hannagan digs concrete out of his family-owned landfill and breaks it down for recycling. (ABC Far North: Mark Rigby) When Dan Hannagan took over the family landfill business he was shocked to discover just how much recyclable material is buried underground. More than five years later, his site
Email Posted June 23, 2016 17:02:48 An excavator with a claw attachment takes light-gauge steel from a Cairns landfill site and loads into a machine that will compress it into bricks that will then be sent to Brisbane to be recycled. June 21 2016. ABC Far North: Mark Rigby Topics: recycling-and-waste-management, environmental-impact, environmental-management, building-and-construction,
Posted June 22, 2016 21:35:59 The number of complaints lodged against West Australian builders has increased by nearly 60 per cent in just two years, a report has found. The finding was revealed in the auditor-general’s report on building regulation, which urged the Building Commission to improve its use of proactive audits to probe operators
Posted June 22, 2016 18:14:16 Related Story: Brexit: Global economic warnings reach fever pitch Related Story: Brexit panic on markets over for now It was a quiet day of trade on the local share market as investors wait for Britain’s referendum on EU membership. The All Ordinaries Index closed just in the red, with a
Posted May 23, 2016 14:09:08 Plunging oil prices have made sitting ducks of many energy producers, dividing the field into the hunters and the hunted. Oil Search made the switch to hunter after successfully fending off an $11.6 billion approach by Woodside Petroleum late last year, and it is now pouncing on PNG rival InterOil
Updated April 18, 2016 10:26:43 Photo: Employment Minister Michaelia Cash says the rate of industrial disputes in construction compared with all industries halved when the ABCC was in force and then doubled when it was abolished. (AAP: Mick Tsikas) The claim Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will call a double dissolution election if
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