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The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant

   The New Zealand Yellow Pages is conducting a marketing promotion to show that no mat

Dubai the city of cranes

 Things might be slowing down in most western countries but things are still goiing full blast in Dubai.

The new Life Hammer

Commissioner warns public about LPG gas tank testing

NSW Crest   Fair Trading Commissioner Lyn Baker issued a further warning to members of the public that the Office of Fair Trading had serious concerns about LPG gas tanks fitted to their vehicles and bearing the Test Station numbers 360 or 360 A,

Builders Excel in Creating Exciting Lifestyles for Australia's Seniors

  Master Builders Australia, in conjunction with the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, announced the 2008 winners at Master Builders’ National Excellence in Building and Construction Awards at a gala dinner in Parliament House in Canberra

Forklift fun comes at a cost

Work Safe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority Dangerous forklift driving has cost a young worker his job, his forklift licence and earned him

Asbestos Management and Control Literature review released

Australian Safety and Compensation Council The Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) Chairman, Mr Bill Scales AO, announced the release of Asbestos management and control: a review of national and international literature.

Recycler fined $140,000 after wall collapse

 An incident in which a woman and her son narrowly escaped serious injury when a boundary wall collapsed into a car park

Farmer dies, others hurt - now is the time to think, plan, act

Work Safe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority A farmer aged in his mid 70s died at the weekend, several hundred metres from home, when he was

Extended warranties under the magnifying glass

NSW Crest Consumers are being warned to carefully examine any offer of an extended warranty in response to the findings of a joint research initiative with CHOICE, Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge said yesterday.

MPMSAA/ACCI Survey of Investor Confidence

  The Master Plumbers are kindly requesting your contribution to the December quarter »

Local Councils Can Help Fight Off Recession

Master Builders Australia, the peak body for the building and construction industry, has called on local councils to play their role in recession proofing the Australian economy at the inaugural Australian Council of Local Government meeting scheduled for Tuesday 18 Nove

ClimateSmart Home Service

Big light switch The Queensland Government has announced a new service to help Queenslanders tackle climate

Furniture company fined more than $40,000 over lift truck rollover

DOCEP A Malaga furniture company has been fined $40,750 over an incident in which a lift truck rolled over and seriously injured two men.

Not quite a lava lamp

soillamp1 This unit does not quite make the lava lamp minimum specifications except that it runs on dirt not lava.

Milk bricks yummm!

GUANGZHOU -- Milk tainted with melamine might be used to make bricks and cement, authorities in Guangzhou said on Tuesday.

Heavy Machinery Acrobatics

 Not to sure how he got up there, but apparently this is a competition somewhere in the world.

Follow the link to see what else you van do with big machinery, the good and the bad!

The new James bond data centre

This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain.

Department of Architecture,Spain

    To live uniquely different architect design different masterpieces of their architecture like Flintstone house , The Shell House

Upper House passes new consumer protection measure

NSW Crest Important changes to strengthen consumer protection under the Home Warranty Insurance scheme were passed by the NSW Legislative Council today, Fair Trading Minister Virginia Judge said.

Clean, Safe, Affordable Power

 

Who would have thought that the benefits of generating electricity from huge nuclear power plants...

 Clean
no greenhouse gases to contribute to climate change

Universities Set To Dump Local Professions In Chasing Overseas Students

   The Australian Institute of Building (AIB) has advised the Chair of the Australian Government’s review into higher education that universities focussing on full-fee paying students are working against the interest of local professions.

Nominations open for WA Consumer Protection Awards 2009

DOCEP Nominations are invited in the quest for this year’s consumer protection champions.  

New zero-emission home for Australian families

CSIRO reports that thirty kilometres north of Melbourne CBD, in the community of Laurimar, a new type of house – the first of its kind in Australia – is about to be constructed.

OECD to conduct first ever Regulatory Review of Australia

 Looks like we are in for more regulations......... whoopee

Young Workers are more likely to be injured...

Work Safe Victoria, Victorian WorkCover Authority   Work Safe Victoria reports 15 to 24 year olds in all types of employment

Folding Pocket Wrench

Folding Pocket Wrench A Crescent-Style wrench that easily slips in a pocket This gives you an entire set of adjustable wrenches that fit in your pocket.

A light at the ender of the tunnel?............. hope it's not Thomas the Tank

Loans for ‘new’ dwellings moved higher in September in contrast to a further decline in loans for the purchase of established dwellings, according to peak building and construction industry organisation Master Builders Australia.

Caltex hit the tradies in Western Australia

DOCEP FuelWatch has strongly condemned the decision by some Caltex and Caltex/Woolworths fuel outlets to increase their LPG prices today by between 6 and 11 cents per litre

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