To sustain our living standards into the future and to continue our unprecedented 23 years of continuous economic growth, the government is looking to break complacency and drive up productivity by encouraging more competition, innovation and entrepreneurship. In a recent Construction Leaders Forum hosted by the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of […]

Eastern states have taken the lead as the focus of employment opportunities within the engineering market throughout Australia has shifted back toward building services and transport projects, according to the latest report. Unveiling its latest quarterly report, recruitment outfit Hays said demand in New South Wales especially had grown amid strong markets in transport, residential […]

Business leaders are constantly told that innovation is ‘essential’ to business growth, competitiveness and productivity in a world of increasing competition and depleting natural resources. A recent McKell Institute Report declared that firms must “innovate or perish” and that executives are faced with a fundamental choice. They can either take “the ‘low-road’ of narrow cost-cutting […]