With her determination, perseverance and resilience Jade Nicholson is making her mark in the construction industry. Now a Project Manager with Multiplex Constructions, Nicholson has worked on a broad rangeRead More

National logistics company, Primary Connect, has appointed Tamara Manasserian as its new Director – Supply Chain Development and Program Delivery. Manasserian began her career in the Woolworths Group’s supply chain more than 20 years ago, and has a deep understanding and experience across supply chain automation, transformation, international supply chains and online networks. During the [...]

At this year’s Australian Freight Industry Awards, Rachel Michaud and the Knorr-Bremse team won the Application of Technology Award for their iMass On-board weighing system. Graduating from Monash University in 2010 with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours, Rachel has made many significant impacts on the transport industry during her successful career.Before her graduation, [...]

The importance of attracting and keeping female talent in supply chain has been an increasingly hot topic over recent years. Prological’s Michelle Powell and Kelly Borskjaer discuss their experiences in the industry, what needs improving, and what is already being done well. Much has been made of the importance of getting more women into supply [...]

With its 50th intake set to kick off next week, WA’s successful truck driver training program will this time focus on getting more women into the driver’s seat. An initiative of the WA Government, the $6.1 million Heavy Vehicle Driver Operations Course has seen almost 500 truck drivers graduate through the six-week program. Launched in [...]

Following a highly successful eight-year tenure spent fostering Australia’s fledgling rail regulator into a nationally recognised safety authority, Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) Chief Executive Sue McCarrey will depart her post at the end of the year. McCarrey said taking on the role of ONRSR Chief and National Rail Safety Regulator had [...]

After years of discussion and deliberation, the Australian road transport sector now faces a painful reality – critical heavy vehicle driver shortages. In the rich tapestry that is the Australian road transport sector – who are Women in Trucking Australia (WiTA) and what is the organisation’s strategic focus? When it comes to female interest in [...]

From dreaming of one day driving a truck as she watched them pass through the highway as a little kid, Kathryn Mobbs, 56, has now been named the Queensland Trucking Association’s (QTA) 2022 Professional Driver of the Year – and she’s the first ever female driver to take out the award. “I grew up on [...]

The Drake Group has announced that one of its team members has won two major awards from Apprenticeships Queensland’s 2022 awards night. Erin Vanderreyden from The Drake Group won the Senior Engineering award, and as a result she was nominated for the overall Dave Handyside Apprentice of the Year – which she also won. Vanderreyden [...]

The University of Melbourne’s Associate Professor Laura Downie has been recognised at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)’s annual awards for a device she has co-invented that could revolutionise dry eye diagnosis. She was among some of Australia’s leading engineers and inventors who featured in the awards night in Sydney on 26 [...]