Routine farming operations have been criminalised by federal environmental law changes, say farmers, who are demanding Environment Minister Murray Watt intervene to avoid a hit to farm productivity and food security.
Discipline needed for governments to spend like they had to earn it
Unions are threatening to shut down BHP’s only iron ore export port in what shapes as a dire blow to the Australian economy.
Instead of driving productivity and improving Australians’ lives, this budget risks penalising hard work, taxing business growth and stifling entrepreneurship.
Gina Rinehart says the Albanese government’s capital gains tax changes will ultimately hurt the federal budget bottom line as mining and other business investment moves offshore.
We want New Zealand to be one of the best places in the world to do business. Why?
Australians have experienced the sharpest decline in living standards across the OECD since 2019. Voters overseas have turfed out governments for much less.
Jim Chalmers’ changes to the capital gains tax could have an even bigger impact on the sector than his mentor Wayne Swan’s controversial resources super profits tax, mining executives warn, and could imperil the future of arguably the most important arm of the Australian economy.
A socialist manifesto-style class war will cost the nation dearly
Shell and Santos bosses have warned Labor’s domestic gas reservation scheme could ‘kill companies’ and damage relationships with key Asian trading partners.
A report commissioned by Woodside Energy estimates its mammoth Browse gas project would deliver $147 billion for WA’s economy and more than $50b directly to Australian taxpayers.
The number of working-age Australians relying on welfare payments has surged to almost 1.4 million, as the Albanese government manages an increasing share of young men and women who are considered unable to work.