Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has claimed the opposition will kill car manufacturing in Australia if it wins government in the September election.
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Tax cuts in NT no good for Victorian businesses: VECCI
The Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry has spoken out against the federal government’s proposal to create a Special Economic Zone in the Northern Territory, saying this would be good for the NT but bad for everybody else.
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Prime Minister commits $35.6 million for manufacturing jobs
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced that Labor will spend $35.6 million to retrain manufacturing workers under a Manufacturing Skills Plus program.
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Can Kevin Rudd revive the green manufacturing dream?
Australia’s ailing car manufacturing industry will receive a A$200m funding boost. And all cars in Commonwealth fleets will have to be Australian-made.
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FactCheck: is Australia losing one manufacturing job every 19 minutes
“Under this [Labor] government we’ve seen one manufacturing job lost every 19 minutes.” – Opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella, Q&A, 1 July.
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Carbon tax to become floating price a year earlier
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday confirmed that the carbon tax would move to a floating price on carbon a year earlier than previously planned.
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Kim Carr named Industry and Innovation Minister
Following the return of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, Kim Carr has been named as Industry and Innovation Minister.
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High dollar hurts food processors
The food processing manufacturing sub-sector is hurting badly from cheap imports, and some are warning that more needs to be done to stop it from disappearing.
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