Manufacturing

The reality is these shiny stone benchtops are not a necessity and too many of our tradies who work with them are getting sick or dying, writes Adele Ferguson.

The latest sales figures suggest the age of the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that can charge from a power point and fill up at the service station appears to be drawing to an end, at least in Australia.

Celebrated fashion designer Kym Ellery defends her handling of the 2019 collapse of her Australian business. 

The majority of the job losses, which amount to about 22% of Ford's Australian workforce, are expected to come from the Geelong area.

Ford's planned job cuts will amount to about 22 per cent of its workforce in Australia, with the majority impacting Geelong workers in product development and design roles. 

The NT government paid consulting fees of almost $150,000 to a lobbying firm to try to "influence" the Commonwealth government to support a gas-based manufacturing hub on Darwin Harbour, FOI documents show.

A new report says Australia should counter China's control of critical minerals manufacturing by fostering an alliance in the field with the United States.

With productivity falling in Australia and AI developments advancing, could the technology be the answer to boosting output, or will it cause more job losses?

About 100,000 legacy mine shafts around the country could be repurposed to generate renewable energy thanks to technology using gravity that has been around since the 1600s.

As South Korea edges closer to being solely powered by renewables come 2050, the manufacturing industries of Australia's third-largest trading partner believe hydrogen gas is the answer to help reach its target.

Renewable startups say Australia is being too conservative in its approach to funding lithium battery projects, and risks missing out on capitalising on the multi-billion-dollar industry.

Farmers say big reforms to migration could significantly cut the number of workers on farms and increase costs for meat processors.

Car manufacturers say Australia needs to urgently adopt fuel efficiency standards in line with other countries to help promote the uptake of electric vehicles, warning it will otherwise be unable to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

Dried fruit growers can now order a specialised harvester, but it hasn't always been the case.

A US appeals court rules Tesla CEO Elon Musk violated federal labour law by tweeting that employees of the electric vehicle maker would lose stock options if they joined a union.

The $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund is aimed at broadening Australia's domestic industrial base and reducing the nation's dependence on imports. But how will it do this?

A man's dream to connect the iron ore and coal fields of the Pilbara in the west and the Bowen Basin in the east is being scrutinised by a Senate committee this week.

A group of inventors operating out of a small workshop in regional Victoria are creating surveillance technology that will help the military by replacing dangerous patrol duties.  

A councillor says Port Kembla may be able to embrace new nuclear, wind and hydrogen technologies, despite concerns there is not enough space to give the major projects a home.

A small foundry in far north Queensland is keeping the blacksmith's flame alive as manufacturers, artists and "hobbysmiths" contribute to rising demand for metalwork skills.

Blacksmithing is far from the outdated image of medieval sword-making. It's one of the dozens of trades recently added to the government's Apprenticeships Priority List.

Gas users in Victoria are bracing for a supply crunch that regulators warn could hit as soon as this winter as production from historic fields in the Bass Strait dramatically tapers off.

National security, the prime minister told us this week, can have many faces, writes Laura Tingle.

A new campaign is calling on the federal government to immediately ban engineered stone imports and manufacturing, with the CFMEU promising a ban on its members working with the product if the government does not step in.

It's understood the company, which makes products for supermarkets and a national fast food chain, will tell the few remaining staff at its Wodonga plant of their future in "coming weeks".