Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and the Environmental Trust are calling for applications for a share of $43.1 million to accelerate and stimulate investment in waste and ...

A man has been convicted in the Land Environment Court and fined a total of $36,000 following a NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) investigation into the illegal dumping of ...

The Australian Government has released a notice indicating its intention to consider opening a nationwide volunteer process for land owners to nominate land for Australia's radioactive ...

The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has called on the Senate to pass legislation to end the duplication between state and federal native vegetation management laws.

The Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) slipped back into negative territory in August, following a short-lived stabilisation in ...

The Review of the Renewable Energy Target (released 29 August) confirms that the scheme represents a 'massive transfer of wealth' within the electricity market and makes a compelling ...

Investigations by the Department of Agriculture on the illegal importation of aquatic plants has resulted in the conviction and sentencing of a Queensland man who now faces time in ...

The extraordinary outburst from the Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, on ABC Brisbane radio (Thursday 21 August) in responding to the Save Solar campaign shows how out of touch the ...

SA Premier the Hon. Jay Weatherill announced the state's top ten economic priorities to shape the future of the State at a CEDA forum in Adelaide.

Australia risks being left behind as the only country in the OECD that does not have a national science and technology, or innovation policy, an expert told a packed forum recently. ...

The latest Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI®) edged into positive territory in July, following eight months of contraction, ...

The federal government is seeking feedback on the design and implementation of the new Industry Skills Fund, the $476 million programme which will underpin Australia's sustainable ...

The Fair Work Ombudsman has welcomed the findings of a University of Melbourne research project which examined the agency's compliance work.

The Australian Government is putting in place a 'key program' in its overall strategy to create new opportunities for investment and jobs growth in Tasmania.

An alliance of Australia's top business associations has called for a COAG report – the Packaging Impacts Decision Regulation Impact Statement (DRIS), prepared for the nation's ...

An alliance of six industry associations released on Sunday (20 July) the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of rapidly escalating gas prices on the Australian economy.

Following weeks of ambivalence, negotiation, and a marathon debate lasting more than 50 hours, Tony Abbott's carbon tax repeal bill finally reached its parliamentary frontier when ...

Three of Australia's leading groups representing businesses in critical sectors of the economy have welcomed the repeal of the carbon tax as the first step in moving towards an ...

The Australian Government has announced the opening of Commonwealth groundwater purchases in the Queensland Central Condamine Alluvium.

Australian consumers will be forced to pay as much as $8 billion under a container recycling scheme that is being considered by state governments.