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While you are in Singapore perhaps you should ask your hosts why Australia, the most RESOURCE RICH country on earth and a NET EXPORTER of fossil fuels/energy, has to beg for essential liquid fuels from Singapore, a county with ZERO oil or gas of its own, Zero mineral resources, Zero raw materials for industry, and has to IMPORT EVERYTHING from food, fuel, minerals, metals, manufacturing inputs, building materials, and even has to import drinking water for its citizens?

Producers’ complaints about unwieldy and costly approvals processes have taken on an extra edge amid worries on domestic shortages and a global LNG squeeze.

Farmers in northern Victoria’s Dookie region said they were blindsided by plans to declare the area a Renewable Energy Zone, warning the move threatens some of the most productive cropping land in the state.

The war against the Iranian regime has laid bare Australia’s fuel folly. It’s time our leaders stop sacrificing energy security to appease the green gods.

The so-called ‘experts’ simply did not accept the possibility renewable energy would not replace fossil fuels.

In just two decades, Australia has gone from energy self-sufficiency to dangerous dependence. Like the US, we can turn it around. The question is, will we?

The country’s 25 SEZs have become a hub for commodity processing and high-tech industries

Every major energy crisis invites finger-pointing. In 2022, the world blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for a spike in natural-gas prices. This time, it’s attributing the energy crisis to the war in Iran. But challenges in energy production and trade because of geopolitical tension are common.

An exclusive new poll shows seven in 10 voters want domestic oil production ramped up to improve Australia’s fuel security – and the majority disapprove of the PM’s handling of the fuel crisis.

National economic resilience is back in the headlines but it is not just our reliance on imported fuel that needs to keep our policy­makers up at night.

We seem headed back to the bad old days of industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s, when union militancy in the mining sector smashed productivity and our reputation as a stable and reliable trading partner.