Updated June 07, 2016 15:31:26 The Saudi Arabian Cabinet has approved a major plan to diversify the economy away from oil, aiming to generate 450,000 non-government jobs by 2020. The National Transformation Program (NTP) 2020, endorsed by Cabinet on Monday, also seeks to cut public expenditures by 40 per cent over the next five years
Posted May 30, 2016 12:23:01 Photo: Victoria was the only state to record a rise in new home sales. (AAP: David Crosling) New home sales have fallen and auction clearance rates have also eased, signs that Australia’s housing market is gradually cooling. The Housing Industry Association’s (HIA) data on new home sales showed a 4.7
Safe Work Australia’s Chief Executive Officer, Michelle Baxter is urging interested parties to express their views about exposure standards for hazardous chemicals used in workplaces in a public consultation process. Exposure standards refer to the airborne concentration of individual chemicals in the worker’s breathing zone which, according to current knowledge, should not cause adverse health
Updated June 16, 2016 18:40:34 The share market had a flat close on Thursday, losing solid early gains after Japan’s central bank kept interest rates on hold and investors remained wary about the risk of Britain leaving the European Union. Stocks rallied at the open, led by miners, after the US Federal Reserve left interest
Posted June 16, 2016 13:27:44 Photo: The decision to halt work will slash the company’s overall workforce. (105.7 ABC Darwin: Emilia Terzon) About 30 tradies are set to lose their jobs after a Darwin-based developer halted work on a complex of 92 apartments that began construction in September. Local company Sunbuild on Wednesday notified workers
Over the Christmas and New Year period and into 2016, Ann Sherry AO called for focus on reducing worker fatalities and injuries ahead of her departure as Chair of Safe Work Australia. Reflecting on her time leading Safe Work Australia over the past three years, Ms Sherry noted that while the number of deaths
Updated June 09, 2016 07:00:57 Photo: Four of the seven new LNG plants sanctioned in Australia have commenced production. (Reuters, file photo) The global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market which Australia has pinned much of future economic fortunes on will remain over-supplied and stricken with low prices until at least the end of the decade,
Workers winding up after Sunbuild halted construction on this project in June 2016. Source link
Congratulations to Mars Petcare Australia for winning the Workplace Participation Reward for outstanding spirit, participation, creativity and sustainability during 2015 National Safe Work Month. Safe Work Australia Chief Executive Officer, Michelle Baxter, congratulated the pet care product manufacturer for their approach to safety in their Victorian factory. “The Mars Petcare Wodonga factory took a
Email Posted June 14, 2016 18:47:02 Queensland Resources Council chief executive Michael Roche said the budget had some positives but the Government’s response to industry reform needs to be swifter. Arlie Felton-Taylor Source: ABC Rural | Duration: 4min 50sec Topics: agricultural-policy, business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, mining-industry, mining-rural, industry, budget, toowoomba-4350 Source link
