Article by Dean Nalder – WA Shadow Treasurer
Now more than ever, WA needs to undertake significant economic reform to create jobs quickly and stimulate a fragile economy. It’s worth remembering that before COVID-19 , our domestic economy was fragile at best. Recent events have done even more economic damage making it now imperative to: › Cut energy costs for businesses and households; › Reform inefficient taxes and charges like stamp duty; › Increase spending [...]
7 April 2017 Geoff Chambers The Australian
Malcolm Turnbull has described India as a “land of immense opportunity for Australia”, ahead of his first visit to the subcontinent powerhouse next week.
In a speech to the Sydney Institute last night, the Prime Minister outlined the importance of Australia’s ties with India, a day after billionaire Gina Rinehart warned the federal government to follow the economic lead of Narendra Modi.
“Alongside China, India is a land [...]
11 February 2017 Simon Benson The Australian
Australia faces a potential investment crunch with Treasury analysis revealing that foreign direct investment has already crashed almost 50 per cent on 2015 levels.
The downward trend is more concerning because it runs against growing global flows; Australia’s share of the $US1.8 trillion ($2.36 trillion) global foreign direct investment pool tumbled from 3.2 per cent in 2011 to 1.3 per cent last year as other countries became relatively [...]
9 December 2016
Today I have approved a proposal for the sale of S. Kidman & Co. Limited (Kidman) that will increase the level of Australian ownership of the Kidman group of properties.
Under the proposal the largest station in the Kidman group, Anna Creek and its outstation The Peake, will be acquired by the Williams Family, a local farming family with properties that adjoin Anna Creek.
The remainder of the S. Kidman and Co. [...]
26 October 2016 Mrs. Gina Rinehart
“The little recognised requirements of growth centres, can Australia become a growth centre of the world?”
Good morning distinguished guests and all delegates,
Greetings from the Roy Hill berths at Port Hedland. As you can see we have 2 ships in harbour, one almost loaded which will go out tonight and the other which we’re about to start loading which you can see is high in the water.
May [...]
10 October 2016 Terry McCrann Herald Sun
AUSTRALIA’S richest woman Gina Rinehart has brought together two of the greatest names in the nation’s history and in its development. She has very neatly unified past, present and future.
In spending around a quarter of a billion dollars to buy control of a slice of Australia, big enough to actually be seen with the naked eye from the moon, she’s also got Treasurer Scott Morrison out of [...]
22 April 2016 Emirates News Agency
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart said, the untapped and undiscovered lands of northern Australia is one of the world’s “last great development opportunities.”
Rinehart said the Northern Territory has massive potential as it is majorly untapped, while its proximity “on the doorstep” of Asia specifies potential investment from prime Asian firms.
“This area is not only very friendly, but unique, and does indeed represent one of the world’s last [...]
20 April 2016 Ashley Manicaros Northern Territory News
THE extent of commodity price falls was not predicted despite it being part of a regular cycle in the Australian resources sector and a turnaround was even harder to predict, according to mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
The chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting, and Australia’s richest person, who was in the Territory to address an invitation-only investment forum on Monday, said in responses to Business Week queries any turnaround [...]
19 April 2016 Ashley Manicaros Northern Territory News
AUSTRALIA’S richest woman made a sales pitch on behalf of the Northern Territory yesterday, praising its potential to an invitation-only investment forum. More than 100 people listened to Gina Rinehart, chairwoman of Hancock Prospecting, describe the Territory as “one of the world’s last great development opportunities of scale”.
To read the complete article, click: Land of opportunity
Courtesy of the Northern Territory News
