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10 May 2012
Victoria Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher New Business For Victorian Exporters In Middle East Market Victor P Taffa The largest ever Australian trade mission to the Middle East, led by the Victorian Coalition Government, is now expected to lead to an annual increase in exports of at least $137.4 Million according to the [...]
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06 May 2012
Victoria Minister for Manufacturing Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva New High-Tech Manufacturing Plant For Ballarat Company Victor P Taffa Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva today officially launched a new $3.5 Million automatic hot moulding press at the FMP Australia plant in Ballarat. Mr. Dalla-Riva said the new technology was part of an overall $8.8 Million [...]
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05 May 2012
Victoria Minister for Manufacturing Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva Manufacturing Awards Recognise Local Success Victor P Taffa Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade, Richard Dalla-Riva, last night announced the winners of the 2012 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame Awards at a ceremony that brought together more than 800 industry leaders. Mr. Dalla-Riva said the awards were an important [...]
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04 March 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Defence Industries Steven Marshall Defence Reshuffle Further Blow To Adelaide Subs Victor P Taffa The Gillard Government has again reshuffled her cabinet, returning Jason Clare to the role of Defence Materiel Minister after appointing Kim Carr to the role in December 2011. This is the fifth change to the position since the 2007 [...]
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03 March 2012
Victoria Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips Victorian Environmental Solutions Firm Cements Project With Major Indian Business Victor P Taffa Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva and Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips today announced that Victorian environmental solutions firm OTEK Australia has won a contract with one of India’s [...]
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29 February 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade Steven Marshall No Innovation In SA Under Weatherill Victor P Taffa The Weatherill Labor Government has cut the only program designed to stimulate innovation in the State – Innovate SA – to save $3 Million. This cut comes despite the Labor Government spending $5 Million on the new Department for [...]
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10 February 2012
Victoria Premier Ted Baillieu Call For Nominations Now Open For 2012 Premier’s Award For Health And Medical Research Victor P Taffa Premier Ted Baillieu today opened the call for applications for the 2012 Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research. “The Premier’s Award for Health and Medical Research is a great opportunity for all Victorians to recognise the [...]
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09 February 2012
Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips Biota Expands Victorian Headquarters Bringing 35 New Jobs Victor P Taffa Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips today announced the creation of 35 new highly skilled jobs in Victoria by 2014 as part of a significant expansion by leading anti-infective drug development company Biota Holdings Limited. The Victorian Coalition Government is supporting Biota [...]
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08 February 2012
Victoria Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations Richard Dalla-Riva Commonwealth Building And Construction Legislation: A Recipe To Take The Economy Backwards Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government strongly opposes the Commonwealth’s proposed building and construction legislation that would lead to an escalation of unlawful behaviour and misconduct within the construction industry. Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations Richard [...]
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04 February 2012
Victoria Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips GSK Injects $60 Million And 58 Jobs At Boronia Site Victor P Taffa Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips today announced that one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Pty Ltd (GSK), will invest $60 Million to expand its Boronia site, creating 58 new highly-skilled jobs by 2017. Mr. Rich-Phillips said the Victorian [...]
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03 February 2012
Victoria Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade, Richard Dalla-Riva Labor’s Betrayal Of Defence Workers In Bendigo Victor P Taffa The Victorian Government is deeply disappointed that Thales has been forced to announce a redundancy program at their Bendigo facility. Unfortunately, these job losses are a direct result of a decision by the Commonwealth Government to source overseas its entire [...]
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03 February 2012
Victoria Minister for Manufacturing Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva Call To Nominate Victoria’s Manufacturing Heroes Victor P Taffa Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva today called on the heroes of Victoria’s manufacturing industry – both companies and individuals – to nominate for the 2012 Victorian Manufacturing Hall of Fame awards. Speaking during a site visit to Ecotech [...]
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31 January 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Environment Matthew Groom Greens’ Shut-Down Forestry – Now Tourism In Their Sights Victor P Taffa The Greens’ anti-everything agenda is on display again and this time it’s a major tourism development in their sights, according to Shadow Minister for Environment Matthew Groom. “Despite previously supporting the Three Capes Track development, in The Examiner today Tim [...]
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31 January 2012
Tasmania Shadow Treasurer Peter Gutwein Brickworks Closure A Blow To The State Victor P Taffa The announcement today of the closure of K&D Brickworks is a massive blow for the Tasmanian business industry and the 30 workers at the Hobart site, Shadow Treasurer Peter Gutwein said. “With the closure attributed in part to a downturn in the building industry [...]
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25 January 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade Steven Marshall What’s Wrong With A Holden, Mr. Kenyon? Victor P Taffa Despite ongoing doubts over the future of Holden in South Australia, gaffe-prone Labor Government Minister Kenyon uses a Toyota as his chauffeured-driven vehicle. Mr. Kenyon’s choice of chauffeured-driven vehicle is a “pimped out” black Toyota Prado 4WD, rather [...]
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24 January 2012
Victoria Premier Ted Baillieu Victoria Minister for Manufacturing Exports and Trade Richard Dalla-Riva Toyota Redundancies Victor P Taffa Today’s announcement of redundancies at Toyota Australia comes at a time when the Australian automotive manufacturing sector is facing a series of challenges, including the high Australian dollar and global economic uncertainty placing pressure on export demand. Premier Ted Baillieu said [...]
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22 January 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade Steven Marshall Labor Plays Politics With SA’s Car Industry Victor P Taffa No detail has been provided to the Liberal Opposition or South Australians about Premier Weatherill’s announcement to provide taxpayer funds to co-invest in Holden. Despite calls from the Liberal Opposition as early as last year for a bipartisan [...]
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19 January 2012
South Australia Shadow Treasurer Iain Evans South Australia Is The Worst Performer Again Victor P Taffa Another day, another set of statistics and another example of South Australia being the worst performing state in Australia. The latest example is the ‘value of building work done’ which fell by 19 % in the September 2011 quarter. This is the [...]
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19 January 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade Steven Marshall Labor Government Industry Assistance In Disarray Victor P Taffa Shadow Minister for Industry and Trade Steven Marshall has reaffirmed the State Liberal Opposition’s support for Holden and the entire manufacturing sector in South Australia. “The Liberal Opposition wholeheartedly supports Holden, the automotive sector and the entire manufacturing sector [...]
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14 January 2012
South Australia Shadow Treasurer Iain Evans More Bad News For South Australia’s Construction Industry Victor P Taffa The number of new dwelling unit approvals in South Australia has fallen by a staggering 21 % over the last 12 months, performing worse than the national average. ABS statistics released today show eight consecutive months of decline in the number [...]
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