There is not a day that goes by that you can’t find an article about the challenges Australian manufacturers are facing in order to remain globally competitive. But there are many believers in the sector who see opportunities despite the extraordinary rise of the Aussie dollar. It’s that positive vibe which saw a leading manufacturing index last month hit positive territory for the first time in four months. And for just the second time in 10 months, the AIG/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index scraped above the magical 50-point level separating expansion from contraction – improving from 47.7 to...







