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New Zealand has demonstrated the depth of its winemaking credentials by taking out half of the major honours at the 2011 Australasian Winestate awards announced last week at Adelaide's National Wine Centre.? ?

Biggest surprise was the ‘Wine Of The Year’ awarded to a New Zealand red from Craggy Range Winery, Hawkes Bay with its Le Sol Syrah 2009, grown in the Gimblett Gravels district.? ?This is the first time in 15 years of this regional judging and 33 years of Winestate Publishing that Australia has handed over its shiraz trophy crown to a syrah. Winestate publisher Peter Simic said that New Zealand syrah had been showing up in the top 10 wines of the competition for the past 15 years, knocking at the door of the traditional stronghold of shiraz in Australia.? ?Rutherglen Double Awards for Morris

In a fitting Australian acknowledgement of the Morris family’s commitment over generations, the dual title of Australian Winemaker of the Year and Wine Company of the Year went to Morris of Rutherglen and David Morris.

“Morris has been a regular winner of the fortified section during each year of this competition, often winning four, or all five category, placings (again this year). The wines have an amazing track record of producing world class wines made by the current winemaker, David Morris, back to his father, the legendary Mick Morris’ involvement,” said Winestate editor, Peter Simic.

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Australian biotech company CPR Pharma Services is now winning more than half of its business from customers based in the US.

The Adelaide-based business offers specialised services supporting drug development for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry internationally.
With more than 55 per cent of its clients in North America, CPR is active in two major areas: Site independent services for early phase clinical studies; and GLP bio-analytical services for clinical, pre-clinical and discovery studies.

During the past decade, CPR, which employs about 40 people, has continually grown and developed through the acquisition of key staff and major infrastructure additions. The company boasts an 85 per cent customer retention rate.

CPR’s core clients consist of global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, conducting at least some of their drug development program in the Australasian region. As well as expert and experienced staff with a strong client focus, CPR offers access to leading academic staff as consultants, state-of-the-art instrumentation (multiple LC/MS/MS capability) and commitment to pharmaceutical standards such as ICH GCP, GLP and ISO.

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Highest take-up rate in the country linked to small business or home office

New figures released today by NBN Co show that one-in-five residents or businesses that can access the new high-speed National Broadband Network (NBN) at the Willunga First Release Site have had a fibre service activated via their retail service provider.  

This is the highest uptake rate for any NBN Co First Release Site, and is indicative of local demand for high-speed fibre broadband.  NBN Co launched commercial services over the network just five weeks ago following several months of trial service.

Of the 1100 premises in the fibre footprint in Willunga, 250 have had an NBN-based service activated, or almost 23 per cent, with more than 30 orders for services currently being processed.

NBN Co Head of Product Development and Industry Relations, Jim Hassell, said the high take up combined with the apparent high density of small office or home office operators in Willunga could see it becoming a high-tech small business hub.

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An award-winning German solar car that last week travelled 3000km from Darwin to Adelaide is now heading for Sydney as the next stage of an odyssey to circumnavigate the world.

The two-seater solar electric car, SolarWorld Gran Turismo (SolarWorld GT), is currently en route to Sydney in the final stage of its crossing of Australia. The solar car is expected to arrive at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday 2nd November.

SolarWorld GT last week successfully completed the first stage of its Australian odyssey by participating in the World Solar Challenge, a 3000km journey from Darwin to Adelaide, which attracted 37 solar cars from 20 countries. All 37 vehicles were powered by the same amount of energy required to run a hair dryer!  SolarWorld GT won the Design Award for the 2011 World Solar Challenge.

After leaving Australia, SolarWorld GT will drive through New Zealand, then traverse several countries from four more continents, comprising North America, North Africa, Europe and Asia. The circumnavigation of the globe will cover about 34,000km with two equatorial-crossings over one year.

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