Investment hit to GDP as Banks calls out Labor’s anti-productivity
Professor Gary Banks has taken aim at the government’s policy ‘inactions’ that are impeding productivity.
Mrs Gina Rinehart AO Keynote Address to the 2026 National Bush Summit, Dubbo
Hancock Prospecting 2026 Bush Summit Keynote Address delivered on behalf of Executive Chairman Mrs Gina Rinehart AO by Adam Giles, CEO Hancock Agriculture and S. Kidman & Co
Business must push back harder on tax, regulation
BCA is right; we cannot tax, regulate or redistribute to prosperity
‘Time to unshackle the bush from crippling taxes, bad policy,’ says Adam Giles
The people who feed and power Australia are being strangled by red tape, a senior agribusiness leader warns, urging sweeping structural reform to save the bush, writes Adam Giles.
Taxpayers are taking the risk on energy
Anthony Albanese has hailed the $2.5bn taxpayer subsidy for the Tomago aluminium smelter as proof of the wisdom of the federal government’s Future Made in Australia approach to business. It is nothing of the sort.
These burdensome taxes by other names still stink
The fastest-growing industry in Australia produces nothing you can buy, sell or export. It produces rules.
‘Hundreds of billions’ in lost investment after governments make Australia a ‘hostile’ destination for cash
Australia has missed out on a huge amount of investment thanks to “increasingly hostile” government policies that have forced the resources sector into “decline”, new research claims.
We can have domestic gas and exports if we lure enough investment
Australia is fortunate to sit atop one of the world’s great natural gas resource bases.
Living standards growth under Labor on track for worst level since World War One as ex-RBA governor calls for action
Australia’s economic stagnation under Labor is the nation’s “fundamental problem” as a new report shows living standards growth is at the worst point since the First World War.
Australia faces worst decade for living standards growth since WWI
Australia is heading for its weakest decade of living standards growth in more than a century, fuelling support for One Nation and prompting former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe to warn that fundamental policy change is needed to encourage business investment.