In welcoming industry efforts to develop a code of conduct to address unfair practices in the grocery sector, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called for issues around enforceability and coverage to be addressed before ...
Tags: grocery sector, Service
As a membership warehouse club, everything we sell at Costco has to be of better value than our competitors in the marketplace,” Costco MD Patrick Noone told the audience at a Packaging Council of Australia Industry Leaders Forum in ...
Tags: lower the price, Costco, Packaging
ACCC calls to 'reinvigorate' Australia's competition policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has provided a submission to the Harper Review of competition policy, calling for a 'reinvigoration of Australia's ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Major freight logistics operators Asciano and Aurizon, along with the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and the Australasian Railway Association (ARA), are calling on the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) to commit to ...
Tags: Service, freight logistics, logistics
The High-Speed Rail Project is a collaboration between Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), and the University of Melbourne Energy Research Institute. The report? is to be released on 30 April. Its key findings ...
Tags: High-Speed Rail, Service, Logistics
IMRIS, an image-guided therapy solutions provider, has obtained Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regulatory clearance for its ceiling-mounted VISIUS intraoperative computed tomography (iCT). IMRIS, an image-guided therapy solutions ...
Tags: IMRIS, Regulatory Clearance, Intraoperative CT Solution
Australia said it had made "substantial" progress on UNESCO benchmarks for protection of the Great Barrier Reef Sunday in a report aimed at staving off a world heritage downgrade. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said a progress report ...
Tags: Reef Protection, Electronics
Many risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are linked to lifestyle or environment and the risk can be decreased at all ages, researchers in Australia say. Lead researcher Professor Kaarin Anstey of the Australian National University in ...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, lifestyle
When Harvey Norman secured the exclusive distribution of the much-anticipated LG Nexus 4 in January 2013, it wasn’t just the $97 mark-up that irritated consumers, it was also the narrow retail distribution. Early adopter Cameron, a ...
Tags: LG, Lenovo, ACCC, Narta Group
The 27th edition of Summernats is gearing up for motoring fans in Canberra come January and CarAdvice has five double season passes to give away. The 26th edition in January this year attracted more than 100,000 people and Summernats 2014 ...
Tags: Summernats, Auto Parts
Holden chairman and managing director Mike Devereux is appearing at the Federal Government's Productivity Commission into the car industry this morning, with an announcement on the car maker's local manufacturing future expected. ...
A Mazda CX-5 has joined the CarAdvice long-term test fleet, though this one will be around longer than usual: I’ve bought one. If you had been keeping up to date with our Santa Fe long-term reviews, you’ll know the Mazda CX-5 ...
Tags: Mazda CX-5, Hyundai
Apple is investigating what caused an iPad Air to “explode” in an Australian Vodafone store, prompting a store evacuation, a spokesman from the Vodafone said today. A display model of the iPad Air caught on fire while the ...
David Jones will celebrate an extra special Christmas with its Canberra customers this year, following the unveiling of its newly refurbished Canberra Centre store on Saturday, 16th November 2013. Following seven months of extensive ...
Tags: David Jones, Apparel