A transcontinental pipeline could be built from the North-West Cape to link the eastern states with Australia’s largest natural gas field, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
 
Barnett on Monday told a petroleum engineers conference that Australia should embrace natural gas for its energy needs and cut carbon emissions from coal, which accounts for 85 per [...]

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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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A company developing a touchscreen device to help elderly people stay in touch with their families has landed a federal grant for emerging technologies.
The federal government on Wednesday announced $3.6 million in funding for a range of projects under the commercialising emerging technology grants scheme (COMET).
Keep in Touch Australia was one of 57 companies awarded [...]

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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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Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex on Friday chose Darwin as the site for a $24 billion gas processing plant that it had initially planned to build in WA’s north to process gas shipped from its Browse Basin Ichthys gas field.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA said the decision not to build the plant [...]

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Oz Minerals, the merged Oxiana and Zinifex, has reassured shareholders of the company’s fundamentals and prospects after a significant drop in the group’s share price.
The share price of the merged company - which legally was Oxiana acquiring the Zinifex business - has dropped more than 67% from $3.90, when the merger was announced in March, [...]

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Nickel miner Western Areas NL says it is on track to start up two new mines near its Flying Fox mine in Western Australia next year.

Managing director Julian Hanna told the company’s annual general meeting in Perth on Friday that these developments, the Spotted Quoll and Diggers South mines, between Kalgoorlie and Esperance, would be [...]

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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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