Construction Equipment & Heavy Machinery Feature Articles

Australia needs to play to its strengths and transition from traditional manufacturing into new areas of competitive advantage, a white paper from the CSIRO has suggested.

A continued decline in engineering construction and manufacturing activity compounded another mediocre month for the services sector.

The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association Australian Performance of Construction Index (Australian PCI) increased by 4.1 points to 59.1 in September.

Six of Australia's leading business groups are calling on the Senate to reconsider its position and pass the critical One-Stop Shop reforms as soon as possible.

Australia's SME sector is consolidating the gains of the last 12 months, with one of the highest revenue performances in the last three years and those experiencing revenue declines ...

Asbestos Worker Program funding, which can save building and construction industry workers $225 and help them meet the end of year deadline for updating their asbestos qualifications, ...

"The Australian Industry Group welcomes today's draft report from the Competition Review panel led by Professor Ian Harper," Australian Industry Group Chief Executive Innes Willox ...

More than half (55 per cent) of contractors feel they are treated differently to permanent employees, despite 85 per cent of employers believing contractors are treated in the same ...

The Abbott government is increasingly isolated in its continued push to axe the Renewable Energy Target (RET), the Australian Solar Council (ASC) has said in a statement.

The construction industry has welcomed the Minister for Immigration's support for a more efficient and flexible 457 visa skilled migration program based on the report of the Independent ...

Industry will have a stronger voice in ensuring Australia's workforce is skilled and ready to drive economic growth in the industries of the future, Minister for Industry Ian Macfarlane ...

The Australian government has now opened applications for the "Manufacturing Transition Programme", a $50 million initiative aimed at continuing the Australian manufacturing industry's ...

The Australian government has introduced a new set of procurement guidelines for the construction and building sector in the aim of protecting householders from faulty materials and ...

Dads have never had it so good, with Australians expected to splurge to the tune of $753.4m this Father's Day – a 3 per cent increase on 2013 – with tools, hardware and electronics ...

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 Australian Government says it has delivered "another important tranche" of its infrastructure and regional development agenda with the passage of the $2.1 billion Roads to Recovery ...

The Property Council has welcomed the cautious approach to savings and structural reform in the first Liberal budget Tasmania has seen in 16 years.

In a major victory for the Master Electricians Australia (MEA), the ACCC has initiated a national safety recall of two major brands of electrical cabling after they failed electrical ...

Master Builders' latest Survey of Industry Conditions for the June 2014 quarter reveals improved residential and commercial sector conditions despite a third successive downward ...

The details of two new projects, worth $3 billion combined, have recently been released in the hopes of improving east Perth's transport infrastructure.