Part 2 - Presentation for UKTI Southwest on Aus & NZ business opportunities

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Australian opportunities: low carbon

• Ratified Kyoto protocol in 2007 and introduced a price on carbon on July 1 2012

• Needs to double renewable energy use by 2020 to meet legally binding Renewable Energy Target (RET)

• Recently announced it will link its new carbon price to the EU carbon trading scheme by 2018

• Contact [email protected] for more information

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Australian opportunities: e-commerce

• Australians spent around £7 billion online in 2011

• Online sales grew 90% from 2010 to 2011

• Opportunities in sporting and outdoor goods, cosmetics and beauty products, books, media and fashion

• Goods under $1,000 bought overseas do not attract 10% GST




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Australian opportunities: healthcare

• Rated as the best Healthcare market in the Asia Pacific region for doing business

• Australian healthcare industry currently generates revenue of A$92 billion (£57 billion) per year

• Forecast to rise to A$113 billion (£70 billion) within five years

• Contact [email protected] or read our healthcare sector briefing for more information FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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‘Australia today has an

extraordinary opportunity to be an integral part of the foundations

of the Asian century’

Hamish Tyrwhitt, CEO Leighton

Holdings

Australian infrastructure trends


Australian opportunities: Infrastructure

• Industrial Communities - building infrastructure to support mining projects in remote locations

• Intermodal Hubs - integrating industry with city needs

• Sustainability – moving to ‘Smart’ & ‘Green’ precincts

• Renewable Energy

• Food Security – building infrastructure to cope with extreme weather and monsoonal cycles

• Contact [email protected] for more information.

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Australian opportunities: ports

• 99% of Australia’s exports by sea

• High demand for Australian resources (particularly commodities) has driven large ports investment

• £100 billion investment needed into new logistical infrastructure

• Read more about opportunities in the Australian ports sector




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Australian opportunities: oil and gas

• UKTI estimates £85bn invested in Australian O&G in 2012

• Designated as UKTI High Value Opportunity for 2013

• Australian upstream oil and gas industry expected to grow at two to three times the rate of the economy for at least the next 15 years.

• Read more in the oil and gas sector briefing or contact [email protected]


Australian opportunities: mining

• Australia’s currently going through a commodities boom largely driven by China’s rapid industrial development

• Significant mining areas of Australia:– Goldfields, Peel and Pilbara regions of

Western Australia

– The Hunter Valley in New South Wales

– Bowen Basin in Queensland

– Latrobe Valley in Victoria

• Mining and mining services industries have doubled in size from 2002-03 to be 20% of GDP in 2011-12



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Australian opportunities: financial services

• Emerged from the global financial crisis relatively intact

• Finance and insurance is the largest sector in the Australian economy, worth more than £83 billion in 2011

• Australia has world’s fourth largest asset pool due to ‘superanuation’. Assets reached approx £900 billion June 2011




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Australian opportunities: ICT

• ICT contributes 4.6 % of Australia’s GDP (AU $82 billion) IBSA Dec 2010

• Building v fast broadband network to cover 95% of population (in 8-10 yrs)

– At A$35.7 billion it’s the most expensive infrastructure project in Australia’s history

• Opportunities in e-Health, e-Learning, digital entertainment, e-commerce for mobile

• Internet usage in Australia is 90% penetration (5th best in the world)



New Zealand opportunities - Infrastructure

• $25 Billion in expenditure planned for the next four years over five main areas of infrastructure development

1. Transport

2. Telecommunications

3. Energy

4. Water

5. Social

• Focus on rebuild of Christchurch and Auckland Infrastructure

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Part 2 - Presentation for UKTI Southwest on Aus & NZ business opportunities

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Part 2 - Presentation for UKTI Southwest on Aus & NZ business opportunities