The biannual Smart Conference and Expo has come to a close for another time, and delivered a strong and improved conference program. With both the number of presentations and visitors up on the previous conference, it offered something for ...
THEY?RE highly successful as consumer devices, but is Apple?s iPad cutting the mustard in the business world? Yesterday two restaurants in inner Sydney were spruiking the benefits of using Apple's iPad to manage everything from the taking ...
Hume Highway – Yass Bridge, built 1876. After half a century of continuous construction and the investment of billions of dollars, a fully duplicated Hume Highway is at last a reality. The final stage in the upgrade of the Hume ...
Tags: Service, Construction, Highway
The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) has commended the NSW Government for delivering one of the most comprehensive state budgets for the rail industry this nation has seen. While no new projects have been announced, the budget ...
Tags: Service, NSW Rail, Rail Industry
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has officially confirmed Australia's 2011-12 cotton crop was a record 973,000 tonnes, up 15% on the previous year. It’s Agricultural Commodities 2011-12 report showed a slight increase in the total ...
Tags: ABS, Cotton Crop
Australian apparel brand Toorallie is proudly boasting a 30 per cent increase in wholesale sales for winter 2013. And the good news for Australian woolgrowers is that Australian Merino wool is the core fibre in all the company’s ...
Simplot’s Tasmanian factory. Simplot Australia employees at the Bathurst, NSW and Devonport, Tasmania food manufacturing plants have been told that their places of work are under threat of closure. The company is experiencing ...
The Federal Government will provide $10 million funding for the Northern Gateway project. The Northern Gateway project includes the construction of a road freight interchange terminal at the northern entrance of Taree to the Pacific ...
Tags: Road Freight, Service, NSW
The exclusive pre-release of Dan Single's newest boss streetwear fashion collection, DAAN, is available now, and General Pants Co. is pleased to be the only Australian retailer carrying the must-have looks online and in selected General ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Finalists have been announced for the 2013 Australian Cotton Industry Awards, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary. The finalists were announced in a ceremony at the Australian Cotton Trade Show, currently being held at Moree ...
Last year’s Fibre of our Nation competition winners, Chad and Louise Taylor of Wellington, NSW, have recently returned to Australia after a visit to New York where they enthusiastically discussed helping to build the demand for wool ...
Sports sedan for hot-hatch money – the Holden VF Commodore SS now sells for $41,990, a reduction of $5800 compared with the outgoing model. Based on SV6 specification, the Holden Commodore SS gets front and rear parking sensors, a ...
Tags: Holden, VF Commodore SS
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Minister for Roads Duncan Gay have announced the proposed motorway linking the F3 with the M2 had progressed to Stage 3 under the NSW Government’s unsolicited proposals assessment process. The ...
Tags: Service
Last week, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) officers in NSW and Victoria seized approximately 32 kilograms of ephedrine. The drugs were detected in 14 separate consignments from Hong Kong, China, India and Ireland ...
Tags: Smugglers, Drug Smugglers, Service
The federal government’s opening of the tender process for the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal (as reported on Transport and Logistics News) has drawn praise from the rail industry, but also attracted criticism for its questionable ...
Tags: Rail industry, Moorebank