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Conexpo tops 2 million net square feet

Exhibit space sales are going strong for Conexpo-Con/Agg 2011, and have topped 2,000,000 net square feet of exhibit space or 16.7ha.

Report: flexible, responsive training key to meeting skills needs.

Recommendations such as accelerated competency based training, innovative approaches to training through the use of mobile training units and upskilling the existing workforce in the report of the National Resources Sector Employment Taskforce, have been welcomed by the Civil Contractors Federation.

Brumby bungles new rail line plan

Victorian premier John Brumby announced about $20bn of new transport infrastructure projects last week.

Whistleblowers can save companies billions of dollars

If someone involved with BP’s oil well drilling program in the Gulf of Mexico, had spoken up earlier this year, the company might have avoided damages that will currently cost it about $40bn to clean up spilled oil, but might escalate to cost it $100bn and break the company, said OAMPS Insurance national manager of oil and transport insurance services Grant Stillman.