Industry News

  Business Tax Review Misses the Mark
The voice of Australia’s residential building industry, the Housing Industry Association (HIA), has challenged recommendations from the government’s Business Tax Working Group in a submission to Treasury.

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  HOUSING 100 Confirms Tough Year for New Home Building
The latest HIA-COLORBOND® steel Housing 100 Report finds that Melbourne-based Metricon Homes was Australia’s largest builder for the second year in a row in 2011/12.

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  Retail, manufacturing sectors plead for interest rate cut
Struggling retailers and the ailing manufacturing industry are among the loudest pleading with the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

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  Japan manufacturers becoming 'increasingly nervous'
Japanese manufacturers are increasingly nervous, as sagging demand at home and abroad is compounded by fears over the ...

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  Aust joins in on international action to reduce pollutants
Australia will join the international Climate and Clean Air Coalition to support action to reduce pollutants.

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  Young workers taking 'black-market jobs': trade unions
Almost a quarter of young Australians are working insecure, black-market jobs and missing out on their entitlements, trade ...

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  Population data shows employment growth 'understated'
Population growth is picking up, increasing the likelihood official figures are understating employment growth.

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