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Ford To Cut 350 Local Jobs

22 August 2008

Economic gloom and high petrol prices hit car sales. FORD is set to cut up to 15% of its manufacturing workforce in Australia, with hundreds of jobs to go at its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants later this year, as a slowing economy and high petrol prices hit sales of big cars... read full story

Ford To Slash 350 Jobs

22 August 2008

FORD is set to cut up to 15% of its manufacturing workforce in Australia, with hundreds of jobs to go at its Geelong and Broadmeadows plants later this year, as a slowing economy and high petrol prices hit sales of big cars... read full story

Blow For Tasmania As Boots Set Off Overseas

17 January 2007

THE company claims to be "Australian for boot", but its boots are about to be made in Asia. Blundstone, based near Hobart, is shifting most of its production overseas, at the cost of about 360 jobs - 80 per cent of its workforce... read full story

Hue Can Bring An Idea To Life

21 September 2005

MARKETING managers often find themselves doing very interesting jobs... read full story

Open Field In The Race For Handicap Honours

23 December 2004

IN SOME ways, winning line honours in the Sydney-Hobart race is a fairly simple thing. All you need are a couple of million dollars for a yacht, a hand-picked crew and a sponsor willing to pay anything to see its brand-emblazoned spinnaker sail first over the finish line... read full story

Latham To Favour Jobs Over Forests

30 October 2004

The Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, will today foreshadow a more jobs-friendly forestry policy in a showdown with the Labor Party in Tasmania... read full story

Mary's Crowning Achievement

16 May 2004

With a bridal waltz, a regal smile, a shower of fireworks and warm words, Mary Glucksborg of Copenhagen, nee Mary Donaldson from Hobart, yesterday began her new life as Denmark's Crown Princess... read full story

Ready, Willing And Able: The Kaz Crew Can Do

23 December 2003

The gruelling Sydney to Hobart race is yet another chance for the disabled crew of one yacht to show the world what they're made of... read full story

Rush To Get Damaged Boats Ready For Classic

23 December 2002

TWO of this year's Sydney to Hobart entrants face a busier Christmas Day than usual as they rush to get their damaged boats ready in time for the Boxing Day start... read full story

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