Article – 'Growing northern Australia' starts today in Mackay
31 March 2014 ABC Rural The first public hearing into the development of northern Australia started today in Mackay. As part of the Federal Government’s plan to develop a white paper on
31 March 2014 ABC Rural The first public hearing into the development of northern Australia started today in Mackay. As part of the Federal Government’s plan to develop a white paper on
31 March 2014 Allyson Horn and Melissa Maddison ABC News Residents in north Queensland will this week be given the chance to share their vision for the development of northern Australia. A
31 March 2014 Andrea Davy Whitsunday Times THE Australian Parliament’s Northern Australia Committee has rolled out the first public hearing in Mackay this morning. Committee Chair Warren Entsch said this was an
28 March 2014 Anna Vidot ABC Rural Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce will lead a ministerial taskforce, investigating options for new and bigger dams. Also sitting on the taskforce are Deputy Prime Minister
28 March 2014 Keiko Ujikane and Maiko Takahashi Bloomberg News Japan announced the locations of special strategic zones in which looser regulations will be tested as part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s
28 March 2014 Cameron Wilson Radio National A proposal to create a tax free haven in the Northern Territory has been criticised by economists who argue it will do little to attract
29 March 2014 Andrew Robb The Land This is an edited version of Minister for Trade and Investment ANDREW ROBB’s speech to the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong on
27 March 2014 Rachel Carbonell and Chris Uhlmann ABC News There are plans in Queensland to build one of the country’s biggest irrigation schemes, as debate over whether northern Australia can become
27 March 2014 Melissa Aisthorpe North Queensland Register AMID all of the hand-wringing in agriculture today over its many challenges, Annabelle Coppin prefers to see those potential hurdles as opportunities. Annabelle, a
27 March 2014 Gladstone Observer CENTRAL Queensland will play host to the Abbott government’s northern Australia inquiry next week, as the parliamentary committee leaves on a six-week hearing tour. The committee, led
25 March 2014 Jasmina Utkovska Australian Manufacturing 19 COMMERCIAL banks and five export credit agencies are contributing more than $US7 billion to Hancock Prospecting’s $10 billion Roy Hill project, which is expected
26 March 2014 Damon Kitney The Australian VISY executive chairman Anthony Pratt has warned that Australia has less than five years to capitalise on the opportunity to become a food bowl for