11 July, 2011
The Chief Executive of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), Andrew McKellar, said Australian manufacturers are “bleeding from the eyes” and things are going to get much worse under the Gillard Government’s carbon tax.
Today the Treasurer couldn’t say how a carbon tax would a...
08 July, 2011
Left-wing activist group Get Up attacks democracy and free speech with its threats of an aggressive campaign to boycott more than 100 Australian food and grocery companies.
Get Up has adopted its Labor-Green mates’ intimidation tactics and is now demanding Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC...
07 July, 2011
Today’s announcement of the closure of Cement Australia’s manufacturing facility at Kandos follows closures of smaller manufacturers who faced increased costs and government regulation.
The Coalition has repeatedly warned that this Government’s policies will push manufacturers over the edge...
05 July, 2011
The Prime Minister is showing how desperate she is by playing childish games and avoiding any scrutiny through not revealing any details about the carbon tax.
The very tricky words about placing a carbon tax on petrol are exactly that.
The oil prospector will be subject to the car...
01 July, 2011
In refusing to stand up for manufacturing businesses and local jobs by opposing the carbon tax, the inevitable has happened. Australian industries have joined forces to fill the vacuum left by sleeping Labor MPs as manufacturing businesses are being torn apart by anxieties surrounding the Gillard Go...
30 June, 2011
Poppets school wear factory at Fairy Meadow in the Illawarra went into administration yesterday.
According to owner Elizabeth Kingston, tough trading conditions and cheap imports from China flooding the Australian market sounded the death knell for the company.
The Illawarra is now...
27 June, 2011
Car manufacturers are fed up with the Gillard Government’s incompetence, deception and hostility, and are now being forced offshore.
In the latest damage caused to Australia’s car sector by the Government’s atrocious policies, Holden CEO Mike Devereux has warn...
22 June, 2011
Labor has spent three years fumbling on anti-dumping, and its long-awaited response today is a typically damp Gillard Government squib.
Home Affairs and Trade Ministers Brendan O’Connor and Craig Emerson have thumbed their nose in testy fashion not only at Australian manufacturers – b...
17 June, 2011
Whilst Labor and the Greens can’t agree on the details of a toxic carbon tax, lost manufacturing jobs have hit a new record high of 105,000 since the start of 2008.
A total of 18,700 Australian manufacturing workers have lost their jobs just since February 2011 alone which is when Prime Min...
17 June, 2011
Labor Member for Throsby Stephen Jones sells out 4,500 workers employed at BlueScope’s Port Kembla steelworks and a further 7,500 workers in steel related industries in the region.
Mr Jones is defying the unions and local workers. He says that the steel industry should be exposed to the car...