AAP Lend Lease said it planned to buy the three hectares in Richmond from General Television Corporation Pty Ltd. Channel 9 is scheduled to vacate the site within the next 12 months, Lend Lease said in a statement, which did not disclose the price. Lend Lease's apartment business, Vivas

MORE than 1000 hectares of large rural land holdings in Melbourne's south-east are about to start coming on to the market, signalling a new phase in industrial sales in the region. The owners plan subdivisions that will include up to 12 million square metres of undeveloped land,

AAP Mr Johnston added that it would be tough to turn the wine division around because of the global grape glut, which was hurting the industry as a whole. "It is an industry problem and clearly as part of the industry it's part of our problem," Mr Johnston said in an interview with ABC's

Forestry Tasmania has set aside 100,000 hectares for specialty timber. Declining woodchip exports have threatened the future of at least two Tasmanian woodchip mills. Forestry Tasmania 's Steve Whiteley says the Special Timbers Zone will support 2,000 jobs and build

AAP Rain in January and February has done little to stop summer crop production reaching at its lowest level in three years, the nation's commodities forecaster says. Crop production will fall to about 2.4 million tonnes, 36 per cent less than last season and the smallest crop since

JOHN CASELLA, the boss and patriarch of Casella Wines, the Griffith-based winery that owns the Yellow Tail brand, has thrown his weight behind calls for vineyards to be ripped out to fix the oversupply facing the sector. Mr Casella said there had to be a readjustment of grape supply to end

LEADING wine industry figure John Casella has thrown his weight behind calls for thousands of hectares of vineyards to be ripped out to resolve the crisis facing the sector. Mr Casella, managing director and patriarch of Griffith-based wine company Casella Wines, which owns the Yellow

The jobless rate for the three months ended Nov. 30 slid to 3.3 percent from 3.5 percent in the previous period, the Statistics and Census Service said today on its Web site . Macau’s government in 2002 opened up the gambling industry and ended the monopoly that had been held by gaming.

December 2, 2009 The Green Building Council's revised Green Star timber credit scheme will be effective from January 1 and allows for equal consideration of Australian forestry schemes that guarantee the sustainable use of timber. The announcement means that the Australian Forestry...