Tips and rumours
Crikey (blog) 31/01/2012 12:10:09 PM
Things ain't always what they seem — I would leave interpretation of aerial photography to people with the appropriate expertise!” Tributes (or not) continue for Baxter. News Limited will be “infinitely better off” without corporate spinner Greg ...

Arrow-Copter AC-10 at $140000 plus might be the answer to Sydney's traffic ...
The Daily Telegraph 29/01/2012 9:56:29 PM
"Shark watch, beach patrols, powerline checking, mining work, locust detection, aerial photography - you name it, it can do it, and a lot cheaper than helicopters and planes," he said. "The helicopter and the plane world, we're coming for you."

Send your DSLR into the skies with the eye3 hexacopter
PC Authority 27/01/2012 10:09:24 AM
Dubbed the eye3 hexacopter, it's essentially a six-armed carbon fibre R/C flying contraption intent on making your DSLR airborne for a bit of aerial photography action. The project is the brainchild of a couple with a hankering for robotics and aerial ...

More Bad News for Housing Sector
DesignBuild Source 3/02/2012 8:42:26 AM
Stand-alone housing approvals fell by 0.2%. Approvals for multi-residential dwellings (units, apartments, townhouses) fell by 2.5% Compared with the same month in 2010, seasonally adjusted approval numbers are down by almost one quarter (see chart).

Housing approvals tumble amid gloom
The Australian 2/02/2012 11:05:23 PM
THE home building industry last year had its worst year since the global financial crisis, and weak conditions appear set to continue following a further fall in approvals for new dwellings. Local councils approved 11400 new housing plans in December, ...Qld bucks national downturn in housing approvalsQueensland Business Review

The Economy: No Change
International Business Times AU 17/01/2012 11:11:29 AM
But car sales in November were solid and even better in December, housing approvals perked up in November because of the first rate cut by the RBA and yesterday we saw home loan approvals surprise some economists with a solid rise. ...

Call for building ban in extreme risk areas
The West Australian 4/02/2012 10:49:34 AM
Australian Institute of Building Surveyors president Terry Bush said the Government should not ban building in fire-prone locations but should enforce measures to minimise the risk. Curtin University fire ecologist Grant Wardell-Johnson said as climate ...

Brooloo folk want road to use
Gympie Times 3/02/2012 5:02:24 AM
When no work had eventuated by late last year, Ms Harris-Johns was again told by the council that work on the road was "being undertaken and the surveyors were coming out to start". "They did come, but no work started," she said.

Trunkey mine study raises hopes for 80 new jobs
Western Advocate 3/02/2012 3:11:58 AM
“The jobs that would be created include plant operators, truck drivers, machine operators and mining engineers and surveyors.” If the study suggests the mine should go ahead, construction would start in 2013 and production the following year.

Metgasco still waiting on licence
Northern Star 4/02/2012 7:44:31 AM
Exploration licences, Assessment leases, Opal prospecting licences, Mining leases; and Mineral claims. Petroleum exploration and production that occurs on land is regulated by the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991. Similarly, there are four main approvals:

Sandmining on Stradbroke Island to be decided at state poll
ABC Online 4/02/2012 12:51:13 AM
PAUL SMITH: It'll affect some of the areas in mining leases that were cancelled. It will also affect us in that some of the leases now have a finite end date. So we will have to undertake rehabilitation activities post-the cancellation of the actual ...

Ipswich CSG sites ruled out by Arrow
The Queensland Times 3/02/2012 2:21:35 PM
The energy company owns mining leases from Forest Lake in the east to Toowoomba in the west and south to the border. There are currently three wells in Swanbank and Springfield areas. Drilled by Arrow in 2002 and 2003, and Conoco in 1996, ...