Waste Treatment & Environmental Management Feature Articles

Australia has signed a new free trade agreement (FTA) with the South American nation of Chile. The pact with Chile is the first FTA under the new Rudd Labor Government. Source: Tim ...

CSIRO is developing new wireless technologies for locating, tracking, sensing and communicating in areas where global positioning systems (GPS) do not work.

“The Green Paper on the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) ticks the right boxes and shows the Government has heard many of the central concerns raised by business,” ...

The development of a new, ‘eco-sustainable’ coating technology for plastics has won CSIRO and its project partner, Dulux Powder Coatings, one of Australia’s leading environmental ...

"Other researchers have developed ways to produce hydrogen with mind-boggling efficiency, but their approaches are very high cost," says Craig A. Grimes, professor of electrical ...

Much comment has been made about the problems faced by companies in manufacturing and industry. These problems are real and growing, leading to manufacturers going overseas or sourcing ...

“The Garnaut report released recently moves Australia a critical step closer to an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), but given the times we are in it’s important that we keep to the ...

A symposium has been organised by CSIRO and the Statistical Society of Australia will explore how technology is generating masses of information and creating exciting home-grown ...

The slowdown in manufacturing activity intensified in June, with the Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian ...

NSW Business Chamber has expressed its dismay at the decision of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to eliminate information on national job vacancies due to Budget cuts ...

The Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations are now at a crucial point. We, the undersigned organisations, still strongly believe that, properly constructed, the Doha Round ...

The economic expansion of these two emerging economic superpowers in Asia has fuelled demand for Australia’s vast resources sector and the services we build around our key commodities. ...

NSW’s largest business group, NSW Business Chamber has said that the delivery of the State Infrastructure Strategy on time and on budget represents the most significant management ...

A new code of practice on the safe design of buildings and other structures – the first of its kind in Australia – has been launched at Subiaco Arts Centre.

Reports in the weekend press that the electricity privatisation legislation may now not precede through Parliament are of deep concern and failure to act will not be in the best ...

Did you know that Australia is helping Singapore 'be creative' to address its imbalance of ballet dancers to engineers; or that there is a Transylvanian Cricket Club full of Aussies ...

Football Federation Australia (FFA) and the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) will help link Australian companies to the rapidly growing business potential of the Gulf region ...

Manufacturing activity remained subdued in May for the fifth consecutive month with the Australian Industry Group - PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing ...

You learn a lot from your children. And they tend to tell the truth so you know where you stand. Source: Tim Harcourt.

Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into ‘biofactories’ capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of ...