The activity witnessed in the Australian manufacturing industry has sunk to a frightening low level. The Performance of Manufacturing Index fell to 32.7 in November, this making the sixth month consecutively that the index has fallen.
Australian Industry Group chief executive, Heather Ridout, has commented on the fall in orders stating that they have never been [...]

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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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Federal Industry Minister Kim Carr has shown great confidence in the future of manufacturing despite a wave of job losses, dismissing worries about long-term viability as a furphy.
Manufacturing has suffered a series of hits in the past year with big job losses in the automotive industry along with cuts at Boeing’s Melbourne plant.
 Senator Carr [...]

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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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