8 October 2014 The North West Star AUSTRALIA’S longest shortcut received a boost yesterday with the announcement of $40 million in funding for repairs and upgrades to sections of the road in […]
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Article – Taskforce focused on Isa’s future
8 October 2014 The North West Star A NEW taskforce has been developed to help drive Mount Isa’s future as a resource and economic powerhouse. Mount Isa Mines, Commerce North West and […]
Read moreArticle – Darwin dinner told Northern Territory is ‘open for business’
The Northern Territory Government is ‘intent on removing any obstacles to investment’ as it aims to realise its potential entering the ‘gas age’, Chief Executive of the Department of Mines and Energy […]
Read moreArticle – Embracing foreign investment in the N.T.
29 September 2014 Lyndon Keane North Queensland Register TERRITORIANS should welcome, not worry about, foreign investment in the region’s agricultural sector, according to Primary Industry and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe. […]
Read moreArticle – Food futures: Australia looks north in search of agricultural potential
26 September 2014 ABC Rural While big business investment in north Australian agriculture has come and gone decade after decade, it’s the minor farmers who have stayed the course. Small crops of […]
Read moreArticle – Top End cotton industry still on northern development agenda
25 September 2014 Carmen Brown ABC Rural As plans to develop northern Australia gain momentum, cotton is once again being investigated as a new crop industry for the Northern Territory. Interest in […]
Read moreArticle – Fracking 'does not pose risk to water supplies': Scientists find contamination in highly-publicised cases was from leaky drilling wells
17 September 2014 Tom Leonard The Daily Mail Scientists have undermined a central plank of the anti-fracking lobby’s case by showing that the controversial drilling process does not poison drinking water. Vociferous […]
Read moreOpinion – The end of Australian thermal coal? Not likely
17 September 2014 Cole Latimer Australian Mining China is bringing in new regulations to raise the quality threshold for imported coal, and many are predicting that this may be one of the […]
Read moreArticle – New boom for meat exporters
18 September 2014 Matthew Cranston Queensland Country Life TOURING an abattoir in western China last month, the managing director of cattle exporter Frontier International Agri Hamish Browning was surprised. The facility, which […]
Read moreArticle – Korea Development Bank will take a 5% stake in the Roy Hill iron ore mine
17 September 2014 Mining Bulletin Korea Development Bank will take a 5% stake in the Roy Hill iron ore mine in Australia, in partnership with domestic pension fund firms and insurance companies. […]
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