Topics: National Measurement Institute 2019-20 compliance program E&OE: Steve Price: Report in The Telegraph- Sunday Telegraph yesterday about what someone could describe as the beer and banger police. Apparently the Federal Government is going to send out mystery shoppers to visit butchers, pubs and supermarkets posing as customers to make sure we are not being ripped…
DetailsSubject: Gifting NASA footage of the Moon Landing to the National Film and Sound Archive and Australia’s space future. E&OE In a doorstop at Parliament House Canberra, The Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, the Hon Karen Andrews MP held a doorstop with Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts Paul Fletcher. Karen Andrews: It’s…
DetailsTopics: Building and Construction confidence, cladding E&OE: Ross Greenwood: Over the past few weeks we have become increasingly alarmed about the building industry, as you're aware. The reason is not only going back to the beginning of the year – the Opal Tower in New South Wales in Sydney. The cracks there that caused people…
DetailsTopics: 50th anniversary of the moon landing & first anniversary of the Australian Space Agency E&OE: Mike Smithson: Yes that audio will live in everyone’s memories forever. I remember the day clearly Tom. And I will declare my age so I was about nine and at school and it was a July day obviously and…
DetailsTopics: First anniversary of the Australian Space Agency, the Government’s tax package and Christopher Pyne. E&OE: Michael Rowland: Now, Australia's home-grown space agency has taken one very small step. It's celebrating its first birthday today. So what has the agency achieved in the year since it was officially launched? The Federal Science Minister Karen Andrews…
DetailsDaniel Seal: So, Minister, you mentioned before, how important do you think innovation is for a country as a whole? Karen Andrews: Look, innovation is what's going to drive the Australian economy for many years into the future. What we as the government are planning to do is to make sure that we normalise innovation.…
DetailsSubjects: Building industry, Australian National Outlook report 2019, R&D, Artificial intelligence E&OE Fran Kelly: Residents of a Sydney’s evacuated Mascot Towers will have to foot the bill for emergency accommodation after building management informed them an insurance claim had been declined. Hundreds have been homeless since last Friday when the ten-storey complex was evacuated after cracks were discovered in the…
DetailsSubjects: Australia National Outlook report 2019 E&OE Laura Jayes: Power bills could cost around 60 per cent less by 2060 if the government pursues energy efficiencies and low emissions technologies. That’s one of the findings in the CSIRO’s national outlook, which compares two versions of the nation in 2060. One where economic and social challenges are tackled head-on and another…
DetailsSubjects: Pre-fabricated Building Innovation Lab E&OE Cassie McCullagh: Did you see that news article yesterday that a growing number of Australians are falling behind on their mortgages, hit by weaker house prices and higher levels of debt as it looks like the economy is slowing just a bit? Now, it’s only the tiniest, tiniest amount – the amount of delinquencies…
DetailsTopics: Queensland Labor Government committing no money to Stage 3A of the Light Rail in its Budget. E&OE: Nicole Dyer: Right now joining you is Federal LNP MP for McPherson Karen Andrews, listening very closely to what Ms Tradd had to say. Good morning Ms Andrews. Karen Andrews: Good morning Nicole, how are you? Nicole Dyer: I'm very well. The Queensland Labor…
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