The Territory’s largest private investor Gina Rinehart has backed the Finocchiaro government’s call to the Albanese Government that it needs to unlock northern Australia’s dormant potential through Special Economic Zones.
Picture a part of your own country so full of promise it could lift the living standards of every working household from Darwin to Alice, Townsville and Cairns, to Carnarvon and Kununurra — and yet our north sits three quarters dormant, its potential smothered under rules written by people who have never worked there.
Many people are caught in the costly slipstream of financial changes.
Our national debt is projected by Treasury to exceed $1 trillion this year. We are all responsible for the interest on that debt and the Treasurer admits there will be deficits and increasing debt well into the future. Is this a legacy we wish to leave our children? Most of the states are on a similar dangerous trajectory.
The Albanese Government’s failure to adequately think through possible consequences of its Budget has left significant problems unresolved. One of those revolves around the future of mineral exploration.
Former NSW premier and now senior BHP executive Dominic Perrottet has warned Australia’s critical mineral industry that countries such as Argentina are becoming increasingly attractive for an Australian company such as BHP to invest in.
Australia’s national debt has been projected to exceed $1 trillion as falling productivity, punitive taxes and unreliable energy are crippling agriculture and future generations.
Hello Carnarvon, a remote but vital town, powered by horticulture, fishing, and the regional pastoral industry, an industry I was very fortunate to grow up in.
AUSTRALIA HAS long been recognised as a producer of some of the highest quality dairy products in the world.
Australia is set for its longest stretch of sub-par economic growth since the global recession of the early 1990s, weighed down by weak consumer and business confidence, high interest rates and resurgent inflation, one of the world’s largest consulting giants predicts.
The proposed CGT overhaul puts junior miners at risk by pushing speculative investment in innovative explorers offshore.