WITH few clunky mechanical parts, the revolutionary all-electric ManGo may well be the car of the future.
But its creators will first have to get it out of the garage.
For five months, 35 of the University of Sydney’s brightest first-year engineering students have been labouring in a workshop, solving a maze of complex technical problems.
Scheduled to [...]

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The Queensland Government has declared Shell’s coal seam gas-to-liquefied natural gas (CSG to LNG) project on Curtis Island “Significant” allowing Shell to submit an environmental impact statement.
Shell announced they will begin to prepare the statement to develop the project further, with plans to produce first gas from its terminal at Gladstone by 2015.
The project is [...]

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A joint venture comprising of Al Habtoor Leighton (40%), Murray & Roberts (40%) and Takenaka (20%) has withdrawn from a $2 billion project in Dubai.
The Al Habtoor – Murray & Roberts – Takenaka Joint Venture (HMRT) and the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) have mutually agreed that the Joint Venture will pull out of [...]

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Norfolk, along with Laing O’Rourke, Connell Wagner and its subsidiary O’Donnell Griffin have signed a $1 billion contract with Railcorp on the Railcorp Program Alliance (RPA) project. This project will include the delivery track work, along with electrical projects from December 2008. The project will go for 5 years with a possible 5 year extension. [...]

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The controversial runway safety upgrade at Sydney Airport will commence this week despite pilots’ groups saying the plan is inadequate and needs a larger safety zone.
The $65 million upgrade will extend the airport’s east-west runway safety area at the Cooks River end, allowing more room for over-running aircraft.
Airport chief executive officer Russell Balding said [...]

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Australian employer confidence has dropped to a five year low as employers are unsure of what impact will have on their businesses, a survey has shown.
A global recruiting firm based in Sydney has conducted a survey of 7,200 hiring managers which showed that Australian Employer confidence was at its lowest level in five years. 
Employers are [...]

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European aircraft giant Airbus will take a major step towards the globalisation of its production on Sunday with the opening of a new assembly line in the Chinese port of Tianjin.
The plant is the firm’s first outside of Europe and gives Airbus a foothold in a market hungry for new planes and hotly contested by [...]

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Queensland experts in underground coal mine fires and explosions have shared their knowledge with mining countries around the world.
Queensland’s Safety in Mines Testing and Research Station (Simtars), is seen as a world leader in mine safety and has been sharing their expert advice with some of the largest mine producing nations around the world.
‘North America, [...]

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AAAI’s new website
The AAAI Group has launched its new website at www.aaai.com.au. They have made their website easier to navigate, more user friendly and have added a range of new features. The new site features a streamlined navigation system which now only contains four main sections, helping candidates get to what you want faster. They [...]

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A report, commissioned by the Australian Workers Union (AWU), on the cost of climate change has called for the aluminium industry to be granted short-term exemption from an emissions trading scheme (ETS).
A poorly-designed emissions trading scheme could cost Australia’s aluminium sector 15,000 jobs and force the industry offshore the report warns.
The exemption from an ETS [...]

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