AN influential private-sector business group led by billionaire Gina Rinehart will lobby to be part of a taskforce promised under an Abbott government to drive a 20-year economic plan for Northern Australia. Under the
The Australian Tony Abbott has announced the Coalition’s Developing North Australia policy in Townsville, pledging that his government would implement a raft of measures to fast-track development across the North, turning it
The Australian Richard Sellers, director-general of Western Australia’s Department of Mines and Petroleum, has defended the environmental record of the shale gas industry. While there has been concern raised regarding fracking practices,
Australia has relied on its resources for its prosperity for a long time, especially during the last six years of record commodity prices. We started being called ‘the lucky country’ decades ago,
Dear ANDEV supporters, Some further details that emerged in last two days on the SEZ’s announced by PM Abe: Deregulation zones: Another borrowed idea, this time from the 2001-2006 government of Junichiro Koizumi.
The Australian In a report released this week, the Australian Council of Learned Academies estimated Australia’s undiscovered shale gas reserves could double to over 1000 trillion cubic feet, but development costs could
Dear ANDEV Supporters While the Federal Government sleeps and doesn’t really care about the future of Australia we have another country Japan move to create Special Economic Zones! See the below article
Dear ANDEV supporters, I was recently in New York on business. New York State is moving to create a series of Special Economic Zones throughput NY. Many of these would be in
President of the Nationals Madam Christine Ferguson, Leader of the Nationals the Honourable Warren Truss MP Queensland Premier the Honourable Campbell Newman MP Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and future
The Australian Royal Dutch Shell chief executive Peter Voser has called on the government to implement improved tax and regulatory frameworks within the resources sector to allow Australia’s existing pipeline of investments
The Australian According to a Newspoll conducted in the week before the federal budget, a huge ninety-six per cent of all Australians believe the mining industry is important to the economy and
The Australian Glencore Xstrata’s head of global coal assets Peter Freyberg has warned that the coal industry is being “smashed” in Australia. Freyberg said a significant portion of the coal industry was