The Albanese Government is under fire from major businesses in the State for launching an assault on the resources sector on two fronts – flirting with the Greens who want a debilitating “climate trigger” as part of new environment laws, and emboldening unions in the Pilbara to take on BHP and demand massive bonuses for workers.
Indigenous leaders from NSW’s network of 121 land councils are preparing to converge in the state’s central west to discuss the consequences of Tanya Plibersek’s intervention that halted the $1bn Blayney goldmine for cultural heritage reasons, a decision she made on advice from a small dissident group.
Uproar over reckless attack on resources.
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has called for Israeli-style Iron Dome missile defence systems to protect the country’s mining assets in the nation’s north because of their crucial economic role.
Claims of ancient camp ovens, possible burial sites and an initiation area near a proposed $1bn NSW goldmine were examined and dismissed as having “no authenticity” in a cultural audit overseen by the Indigenous elders representing the local land council, according to senior Wiradjuri adviser Roy Ah-See.
Agriculture and mining magnate Gina Rinehart has raised concerns about the growing tangle of red tape and bad government policies being piled on farmers and pastoralists.
West Australian Treasurer Rita Saffioti’s defence of current GST arrangements will rile certain economists, but she raises a legitimate issue.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek takes it upon herself to veto a proposed gold mine in regional NSW, ignoring the local land council which was in favour of it, because of unrelated, unofficial Indigenous leaders.
To borrow a phrase from Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison, it’s the s…….t time for the nation to have a Resources Minister who is anything other than 100 per cent committed to keeping the industry strong.
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has been accused of secretly overruling her own department’s hand-picked Indigenous cultural assessor in her decision to declare a heritage order against the $1bn Regis gold mine in NSW, fuelling claims that the Albanese government made a political decision that has effectively scuttled the mine.