5 July 2014 Amos Aikman The Australian SOME of Australia’s best natural assets are going to waste, with tourism numbers dwindling across the Northern Territory amid concern high costs, tired infrastructure and
3 July 2014 RG Network Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill project is almost halfway to completion thanks to the hard work of more than 3,500 people. International contractor Brookfield Multiplex (ASX: MXG) began
7 July 2014 Rick Wallace The Australian MITSUBISHI Corp chairman Yorihiko Kojima has declared Australia a “veritable lifeline” for Japan’s resource-dependent economy and hinted at a string of looming investments here on
7 July 2014 Lucy Barbour ABC Rural The newly sworn-in Liberal Democrat Senator, David Leyonhjelm, says he doesn’t see any value in setting up a national register for foreign ownership of Australian
7 July 2014 ABC News Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss is expected to attend this year’s Pilbara Pulse Economic Summit in Karratha, as a keynote speaker. More than 150 delegates from across
7 July 2014 Phillip Thomson Canberra Times Sun-soaked cities at the top of Australia are crying out for Canberra’s federal bureaucrats to be relocated to the nation’s north. Regional centres in northern
4 July 2014 Australian Associated Press Aboriginal people living in the far-flung communities of the western top end of the Northern Territory don’t always get heard by governments, but now a new
30 June 2014 PRNewswire As the first state-level new special economic development zone in inland China, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area welcomed a new batch of major project contracts on June 18. A
5 July 2014 Brad Thompson The West Australian Overseas and Australian entities are lining up to invest in under-performing Aboriginal-controlled cattle stations in the Kimberley, according to the man behind an ambitious
3 July 2014 North Queensland Register MARKETS and economics as a driver of northern agricultural development is a key focus of Northern Australia Food Futures conference being held at Darwin from November
25 June 2014 Scott Murdoch The Australian CHINA has flagged it intends to finalise a free-trade agreement with Australia before the end of the year after nine years of negotiation in a
Regional Development Australia Pilbara chief executive Diane Pentz is calling for a special economic zone (SEZ) to be established. Earlier this year, the Pilbara Regional Council made a submission to the Joint