Industry News

  Fair Work Review Misses the Mark
The Housing Industry Association says that the small business sector, which makes up over 85% of residential building industry, has been left underwhelmed by the release of findings of the review into the Fair Work Act.

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  House Prices up in June
The latest update for the ABS Index of Established House Prices shows that prices rose in the three months to June 2012, but remain down by 2.1 per cent on prices of one year ago, said the Housing Industry Association (HIA), the voice of Australia’s residential building industry.

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  Bosses hiring illegal workers could face fines of $50,000
Companies hiring illegal foreign workers could have their offices searched and face fines of up to $50,000 under new draft ...

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  Manufacturing plummets on 'global economic slowdown'
Australian manufacturing activity contracted at a faster rate in July as costs rise and the global economic slowdown takes ...

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  Firms able to access 'dollar-for-dollar' clean tech grants
The federal government has again lowered the amount of money big polluters need to spend on clean-technology projects to ...

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  Latest data shows housing sector 'on road to recovery'
Better-than-expected housing data could be a sign that the sector is on the road to recovery — and cuts by Australia's ...

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  Carbon tax still feared – despite poll's findings: Abbott
Many Australians are still concerned about the federal government's carbon tax, despite the findings of a new poll, ...

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