The campaign for carbon pricing have gathered new supporters as the push for the government policy has turned to popularity and gathering of numbers.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 06, 2011
The Australian Government plans to announce a price on pollution this weekend as the central element of a comprehensive policy to tackle climate change, cut pollution and drive the transformation of the Australian economy to a clean energy future.
Sharon Olalia
Jul 05, 2011
Australia's mining boom strengthened the country's trade surplus that has hit a seven-month high to A$2.33 billion ($2.5 billion), from a revised A$1.62 billion surplus in April, the Bureau of Statistics said in a report in Sydney on Tuesday.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 05, 2011
Australia's Lynas Corp. took in a new shareholder as Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has taken close to a 10 percent stake in the mining firm worth $324 million.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 05, 2011
Australia’s consumer inflation rates remained flat in June that may reduce the pressure on the central bank to increase benchmark interest rates in the near term, according to the private-sector led survey by TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 04, 2011
The manufacturing sector in Australia has begun its positive production kick in four months in spite the difficulties in coping with the high value of the Australian dollar and subdued local demand.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 04, 2011
Investors at the Australian Stock Market is expected to rebound albeit cautiously at today's trading. Here are the views of two of the top market analysts on how the market will likely perform on 4 July, Monday.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 04, 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has soften her tone and argued with new semantics to push for the carbon tax.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 01, 2011
An independent team studying the environmental impact of Australia's Lynas Corp.'s proposed rare earths facility in Malaysia said more safety measures need be in place.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 01, 2011
From IG Markets Analyst Ben Potter:On Wall Street overnight, stock finished the quarter and end of the first half in bullish fashion, logging its fourth consecutive gain as Greece passed a second crucial vote on the implementation of the latest austerity package and a much stronger-than-expected Chicago PMI number.
Christine Gaylican
Jul 01, 2011
The proposed mining tax will successfully pass the parliamentary scrutiny and keep its present form, according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who believes that firm backings from independent MPs will seal the measures’ good fortunes.
Erik Pineda
Jun 30, 2011
Small business support for the Australian Government has fallen to a 15-year low, according to the Sensis Business Index released today. SMEs have become much less supportive of the Federal Government’s policies, with the indicator declining sharply during the quarter to be the lowest level since February 1996.
Sharon Olalia
Jun 30, 2011
At lunch the Australian share market is having a much better day, with the All Ordinaries index (XAO) around 0.4 pct or 19.7 pts higher to 4533.5. Close to all sectors are higher, with gains from the banks and miners helping to keep the market in positive territory.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 28, 2011
Murchison Metals, the company primarily responsible for the Oakajee Port and Rail project has admitted to difficulties in funding its share of the development after a key customer placed its mid-west operations on hold.
ranina sanglap
Jun 27, 2011
Admittedly would weigh on household budgets, the Australian government has volunteered to share some of the financial burden entailed by the proposed carbon tax.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 27, 2011
The Australian government is prepared for the counter-offensive as leading cigarettes firm Philip Morris takes legal action against a planned marketing prohibition in the country.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 27, 2011
The Australian stock market is seen receiving a little shove from the negative leads over volatile overnight sessions in the US and European stock markets. The ASX is seen performing modestly on Friday.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 24, 2011
Perseus Mining Limited (ASX/TSX: PRU) has drawn down US$85M under a Project Finance Facility for the completion of the company's Company's Central Ashanti Gold Project ("CAGP") in Ghana, Africa.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 23, 2011
Malaysia's appointed independent panel investigating the environmental impact of the Australian rare earths plant in the country has completed its work and is set to issue its findings by end of the month.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 21, 2011
The vaunted mining boom may have largely fueled up the national economy yet in the case of the Northern Territory, its residential construction industry appeared to have absorbed the negative impacts of the two-wind growth.
Erik Pineda
Jun 20, 2011
India's Tata Steel has accepted the takeover offer of Rio Tinto for the Riversdale Mines in Africa, allowing the London-based mineral producer to have an edge over iron ore grade coal produced by Riversdale.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 17, 2011
Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Economies Tim Mulherin today launched a food policy for Queensland to further build the state’s billion dollar food industry.
Jamelle Agbuis
Jun 16, 2011
People around the globe are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food, according to a new global survey released today by international aid agency Oxfam.
Sharon Olalia
Jun 15, 2011
For a third straight month, business owners in Australia have been down by pessimism as the Australian dollar reached new highs, an indicative report by the National Australia Bank (NAB) said.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 14, 2011
Beef cattle producers in Australia can expect an increase in projected farm cash incomes in 2010-11 as a result of improved seasonal conditions according to a new report released today by ABARES.
Sharon Olalia
Jun 14, 2011
Regal Beloit Corporation (NYSE: RBC) today announced that the Company has acquired the Australian Fan and Motor Company (AFMC) headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
Preciosa Dumlao
Jun 13, 2011
Even as Germany, Japan, Switzerland and other nations move to abandon existing and planned nuclear reactors, the United States is on a path to see at best only a small handful of already planned, government-backed reactor projects proceed, a group of experts said today.
Preciosa Dumlao
Jun 13, 2011
The Australian livestock industry may get a reprieve from the financial debacle posed by the six-month-cattle ban to Indonesia by tapping into the $5-million contingency fund of the Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), said Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 13, 2011
Leighton Holdings Ltd. expects to incur a significant financial loss on its Airport Link Project in Brisbane. The construction company originally expected to report a profit of $407 million for the project, but has revised the outlook to a pre-tax loss of $430 million.
Leighton now says it is pursuing compensation where possible to recover ad
Carlo Fernandez
Jun 10, 2011
There is now no stopping the Australian government from implementing the economy-wide carbon tax that aims to lower greenhouse emissions. The Gillard administration even got the support of independent MP Tony Windsor after the Productivity Commission report.
Christine Gaylican
Jun 10, 2011
