Never before has the importance of local manufacturing been more felt than now with the global pandemic throwing the international supply chain out of gear.
Something that policymakers are realising now – the important of local manufacturing to the economy – has been known to the Brisbane-based Everhard Industries for 95 years. The sudden disruption to international supply chains triggered by COVID-19 highlighted the strategic need to have a strong local manufacturing base.
Everhard chair Sue Boyce is delighted with the Australian Government’s renewed focus on manufacturing. Speaking to INQueensland, she said, “Twenty years ago, to be a manufacturer was to be very boring and tedious, so last century. People are now realising that manufacturing covers everything from vaccines to septic tanks, which is what we do.”
Investors spark frenzy on Brisbane’s commercial property market
By Maja Garaca Djurdjevic
29 April 2021
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Certain commercial property markets in Brisbane saw their best March on record, with the city’s south enjoying a “frenzied” success as investors flocked to snap up warehouses and logistics centres, new data has revealed.
The sale of commercial property in suburbs to the north of Brisbane CBD went into overdrive in March, while the city’s south recorded one of the best months in over 20 years for industrial precincts such as Rocklea, Sumner, Raceview and Loganholme, Raine & Horne revealed in a recent market update.
As Queensland opens up and holiday makers are roaring to hit the roads this Easter, The Courier-Mail has determined where the state s most lucrative speed and red light cameras are positioned, with one Gold Coast speed camera alone raking in over $16,000 per day. The state s five worst hot spots for drivers speeding and running red lights have been revealed, with the five locations drawing in an eye-watering amount of money. An intersection at Broadbeach Waters, Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Rd, the Pacific My in Loganholme, Kangaroo Point s Main St and the Bruce Hwy at Burpangary East raked in just shy of a gobsmacking $20 million in just one year.
As Queensland opens up and holiday makers are roaring to hit the roads this Easter, The Courier-Mail has determined where the state s most lucrative speed and red light cameras are positioned, with one Gold Coast speed camera alone raking in over $16,000 per day. The state s five worst hot spots for drivers speeding and running red lights have been revealed, with the five locations drawing in an eye-watering amount of money. An intersection at Broadbeach Waters, Mount Gravatt-Capalaba Rd, the Pacific My in Loganholme, Kangaroo Point s Main St and the Bruce Hwy at Burpangary East raked in just shy of a gobsmacking $20 million in just one year.