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Business Council Statement on Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook
The Business Council is concerned an increase in government spending, shown in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) will hamper a private sector-led recovery, which is critical to easing cost-of-living pressures and building a more competitive economy.

Gina Rinehart Shines at the Gala for Australia’s National Mining Day 2024 – Industry Leaders Rally Behind Fossil Fuels and Critique Renewables
National Mining and Related Industries Day 2024 was hosted in November at Santos’s Moomba gas field in South Australia’s Cooper Basin. The event featured a range of speakers, including Gina Rinehart, founder of the day and patron of Hancock Prospecting, as well as opposition leader Peter Dutton.

‘Drill, baby, drill’: celebrities, politicians and Australia’s richest woman spotted at exclusive mining gala
Pauline Hanson, Guy Sebastian and Gina Rinehart have been spotted at a gala dinner celebrating Australia’s mining industry.

All I Want For Christmas Is… To Make Australia Great
Merry Christmas, Aussie Spectators! Yes I know December is not looking too Chrissie prepared, with rising electricity costs, aircon over summer subject to government planning, that is looking rather unreliable, record business failures, farmers and pastoralists struggling, especially under government tape burdens (like the rest of us), dwindling investment, the resources pipeline list turning into the 80 per cent causality list, and the costs and housing and crime and hospital crises fuelled by far too many government selected immigrants, such crises hurting too many Australians. And seven continuous quarters of standard of living decline, this long decline is a record.

Exploration drillers tighten belts as boom fades
Spending on mineral exploration has slumped to the lowest level in three years as the most represented sector on the ASX goes into cash preservation mode and the scourge of inflation means fewer metres are drilled for every dollar spent.

Insane. Unachievable. Can’t be done.
Our energy costs will go up. We’ll be poorer. Net Zero will be a catastrophe. Let’s stop making people poorer.

Plibersek’s EPA a threat to mining, claims WA premier
West Australian Premier Roger Cook said a deal crunched between Tanya Plibersek and the Greens to establish an environment protection agency would have posed a risk to the state’s mining industry and nation’s prosperity.

Mining profits suffer a $4.6bn hit
Mining profits have taken a $4.6bn hit amid a decline in coal and iron ore exports, driving an unexpected drop in economy-wide earnings and threatening to push the federal budget deeper into deficit.

Anthony Albanese’s Praetorian Guard goes fishing to save votes from Tanya Plibersek’s ‘long game’
Anthony Albanese’s left-faction lieutenants have met with Tasmanian community and industry leaders concerned that Tanya Plibersek could shut down the state’s $1.36bn salmon industry, as ALP figures say the Environment Minister is ready to “play the long game” in her political rivalry with the Prime Minister.

Record number of Australians struggling to pay electricity bills
A record number of people are struggling to pay their energy bills, the Australian Energy Regulator has said in a report that highlights the toll of Australia’s cost of living crisis that is sapping support for the federal Labor government.

National Mining and Related Industries Day 2024
On the 22nd November, people travelled from all over Australia, to come together in outback Australia to celebrate National Mining and Related Industries Day. The gala event was held at Santos’s Moomba gas field in South Australia.

Green lawfare on ALP’s watch amounts to economic sabotage
Imagine a foreign organisation was secretly funding a sophisticated campaign to damage Australia’s economy, divert billions of dollars of investment away from our country, destroy tens of thousands of our blue-collar jobs and bring Australia’s leading position in economic exports to an end.