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Fuse is open in Mackay!

17 February 2012

  Fuse has decided to open an office in Mackay to service our expanding clients in the region. We have many opportunities for candidates with all types of skill sets. If you are looking to come and work in regional QLD visit our wobise to see what roles w... read full story

Receive A Job Counter-Offer? Don't Take It

07 July 2011

  A few years ago, I recruited an executive to run a mid-level company. The night before he was supposed to start his new job, the executive called to say he was staying put. The board of directors at his current company--a major multinational retailer--... read full story

Electric cars may not be so green after all, says British study

16 June 2011

ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found. An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net sa... read full story

Rio Tinto races ahead in the Pilbara

16 June 2011

  Rio Tinto has moved to race ahead of its iron ore rivals by accelerating the Pilbara expansion program. The world’s second biggest mining company said today that its iron ore production capacity in WA would leap by 50 per cent to reach 333 million t... read full story

NBN tendering announcement 'soon': Conroy

18 May 2011

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy expects NBN Co will make an announcement about rollout tendering processes soon, after it suspended them in April. NBN Co told 14 companies vying for a contract to lay the national broadband network's fibre cables t... read full story

Clive Palmer in $3.6bn HK float to raise funds for coal and iron ore projects

18 May 2011

MINING billionaire Clive Palmer yesterday unveiled the long-awaited details of his $3 billion-plus Hong Kong float of coal and iron ore Resourcehouse group. As reported in The Courier-Mail yesterday, Mr Palmer revealed vital details of the float includi... read full story

New biofuel from feedstock

18 May 2011

The University of Sydney's Professor Thomas Maschmeyer is behind cutting edge research that could fuel the aviation industry from sustainable energy sources in the not too distant future.Speaking recently on the ABC's The Science Show, Professor Maschmeye... read full story

Rio signs another JV with Chinalco

27 April 2011

RIO Tinto will enter a joint venture with Chinalco's Australian subsidiary to explore for copper in Chile.  China Yunnan Copper Australia's (CYU) main shareholder is Yunnnan Copper Industry, which is in turn majority-owned by Chinalco. Chinalco is also... read full story

BHP Billiton's $48bn iron expansion defies carbon tax uncertainty

19 April 2011

BHP Billiton plans to defy uncertainty over a carbon price and the imposition of a mining tax to pursue a $48 billion expansion of its iron ore operations - one of the biggest resources projects in the nation's history. The expansion of the mining monolit... read full story

Economists put $129bn tag on cut to research

19 April 2011

AUSTRALIA would stand to lose $129 billion and more than 1600 valuable researchers over the next eight years if the Gillard government cuts $400 million from medical research in next month's budget, health economists say. A group of experts led by Profess... read full story