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Gloves off as unions muscle up in Pilbara
Is this the beginning of the return to the bad old days when cowboy unions held our country’s economy to ransom?
Dutton to take axe to green groups, turbocharge mining
By slashing the power and influence of environmental groups to challenge mining proposals if he wins government, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has anointed himself the resource sector’s best friend.
I’ll be the best friend you ever had, Peter Dutton promises miners
Peter Dutton wants to fast-track more than 420 mining and energy projects if the Coalition wins government. Resources Minister Madeleine King will tell miners there is no time to lose to meet demand for materials for weapons and renewables.
’We haven’t given up’: Coalition remains hopeful after poll show Australians split 50-50
A shock new poll has revealed Labor and the Coalition are neck and neck for the first time in two years – with one Coalition leader making a bold call.
Nature Positive: Inside the fight over Labor’s federal EPA
As the sun sets over Canberra on Monday evening, a crowd of high-profile mining executives, industry lobbyists and Federal MPs will start filing into Parliament House’s Great Hall.
Miners accuse Albanese of KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE
Uproar over reckless attack on resources.
2HC Radio – 5 September 2024
The ABS head of national accounts confirmed economic growth in 2023-24 was the slowest since 1992.
Sea snake’s endangered declaration sparks call to halt Woodside Energy’s Browse gas project
A little-known species of sea snake is shaping as the latest threat to Woodside Energy’s $US20bn ($29.7bn) Browse gas project, with Tanya Plibersek’s own department calling for an “urgent review” of Browse and other Timor Sea energy projects after the dusky sea snake was formally declared endangered.
Changes to mining rule book ‘would not have helped Regis investors’
Radical changes to the code that governs how mineral deposits can be reported to investors would not have protected backers of gold miner Regis Resources from a shock Indigenous heritage ruling that derailed a $1 billion project in NSW, an industry meeting in Perth has been told.
Bush Summit: Fossil-fuel approach ‘foolhardy’, says Gina Rinehart
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has raised concerns over the ability of renewable energy to replace baseload coal and gas, saying “humungous” spending will be needed on solar and wind as Australia’s electricity grid faces an uncertain path to green power.
Rinehart calls for Pilbara iron dome
Gina Rinehart wants an Israel-style iron dome protecting the Pilbara’s multi-billion-dollar resources assets from foreign attacks.
Rinehart calls out red tape and ‘bad policies’ being piled on farmers
Agriculture and mining magnate Gina Rinehart has raised concerns about the growing tangle of red tape and bad government policies being piled on farmers and pastoralists.