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Australian Wood Review Competition for students in Years 11 and 12 – Free Entry!
The AWR competition is back for another year for Australian secondary school students enrolled in Years 11 and 12 in 2016. Student Awards have several categories to enter and prizes will be awarded for the following: Overall Best Best Design Best Hand...
Workspace Commercial Furniture Celebrates its 105th Birthday
The AFA would like to wish Member Workspace Commercial Furniture a very happy 105th birthday this week! Workspace remains a founding institution in the Australian design industry, trading through two World Wars, The Great Depression and 26 Australian Prime...
Standards Australia Issue Proceedings Against SAI Global
ARBITRATION PROCEEDINGS REGARDING PLA - BACKGROUND For more than 12 months, Standards Australia has been requesting SAI Global to provide information regarding the use of Standards Australia content in accordance with the contract (known as the PLA) between...
A Chapel in China Appears to Float at High Tide
In the coastal town of Beidaihe near Beijing, there’s a beautiful white chapel that’s both art installation and religious space. Designed by Vector Architects, the Seashore Chapel looks like it’s floating on water – but only when high tide comes around....
2016 AFIA &;amp; ACE Winners Announced
We would like to congratulate all the winners of the 2016 Australian Furnishing Industry Awards (AFIA) and the Australian Contemporary Emerging (ACE) Design Awards. With more incredible designs and quality craftsmanship on show than ever before the judges had a...
Do you use Xero?
If you use Xero, AFA Members may be interested to learn that The Commonwealth Bank and Xero have upgraded their data-sharing capabilities. The new automatic bank feed service, which has been available to small businesses since late June 2016, has already more...
Superstream is now compulsory for all AFA Member Employers
If you employ people, it is now compulsory to use SuperStream to pay super contributions to your employees. What is SuperStream? SuperStream is the new data standard you need to use to pay super contributions for your employees electronically. Under the new data...
Adelaide Furniture Closure
The AFA was saddened to hear that an Adelaide furniture business that traces its history back to 1861 will close its doors for the final time in six months. Le Cornu was originally founded as a cabinet making business in Adelaide in 1861 and since 2008, has...
Do you use Google’s services?
A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 37.9 per cent of Australians aged 14+ (7,427,000 people) used Gmail in an average four weeks during the year to March 2016. Meanwhile, 37.6 per cent (7,362,000 people) used a Microsoft email account during the...
NSW TAFE Amalgamations
The New South Wales Government is streamlining the state's technical and further education sector, with 10 TAFE institutes to be amalgamated. Training Minister John Barilaro says bureaucratic excesses must be curtailed. He added that it is intolerable that...