15th April 2024
Skills Insight is running a project looking at ‘Demand and Supply Challenges’ in areas of training that initially look unrelated (agriculture, fisheries, forestry, seafood etc) but in fact include Piano Technology and Instrument Making and Repairing. Continue reading
15th April 2024
Pernambuco, the Brazilian wood used in bows for stringed instruments, was the hottest topic affecting our industry at the last CITES Conference of the Parties in 2022. At that time, Brazil was proposing to list the species in Appendix I, the highest level of protection, we know it as the place where Brazilian Rosewood and Ivory are listed for protection. Continue reading
12th April 2024
“New and existing subsidies and incentives designed to bolster domestic manufacturing will be brought under the umbrella of a ‘Future Made in Australia Act’, as the government seeks to boost its economic and national security credentials,” writes Phil Coorey in the Australian Financial Review. Continue reading
Media Release: The Albanese Government will ensure students who use technology to attend classes remotely can benefit from the use of copyright material in online teaching in the same way as their fellow students who attend in person. Continue reading
10th April 2024
A new category of Designated Complaints, which can be made to the ACCC by designated organisations, is part of competition legislation that passed parliament today. Continue reading
10th April 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced a new policy to deal with mergers. Continue reading
9th April 2024
Last month Mark Amory left the AMA board after a long period of service to the association. According to the AMA’s constitution, board members hold their positon as a representative of a member company and therefore vacate that position when they leave that employer.
Angus Marshall, recently appointed as Interim General Manager, Fender Music Australia, accepted a nomination to fill the casual vacancy and was elected by a vote of the board on Friday 5th April. Continue reading
28th March 2024
Prompted by the Australian Government’s Nuisance Tariffs announcement, which proposes to remove tariffs on almost 500 import codes including percussion instrument, the AMA has taken a closer look at the customs data to see how much duty is being collected, for what products, and from which places.
This article tells part of the story of tariffs on musical instruments, and exports, through the data we have available. Continue reading
13th March 2024
Federal Treasurer has announced the elimination of almost 500 ‘nuisance tariffs’, typically those that are lingering in the system from when tariffs were more typical on particular products but are no longer useful and generate little to no revenue. Continue reading
February 2024
NAMM celebrated the return to its ‘home’ timeslot with a typically action packed four day show at Anaheim Convention Centre, 25th-28th January 2024. Attendance was up, exhibitors were up, and noticeably there are more Australians returning to the NAMM Show. Continue reading
