Green lawfare on ALP’s watch amounts to economic sabotage

Imagine a foreign organisation was secretly funding a sophisticated campaign to damage Australia’s economy, divert billions of dollars of investment away from our country, destroy tens of thousands of our blue-collar jobs and bring Australia’s leading position in economic exports to an end.

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Santos opponents referred to NACC

The Environmental Defenders Office and the consultants they used to prepare the heavily criticised evidence at the centre of their failed legal challenge against oil and gas producer Santos are set to be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

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Damning admission on mine decision

There was “no person” on Tanya Plibersek’s staff who could tell if the Blayney goldmine could recover from her heritage decision, department documents show, despite later assurances there was “no impediment” to it.

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‘Sell the pot plants’: Gina Rinehart takes aim at public service

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has taken aim at bureaucrats while calling for Trump-style cuts to the public service, saying taking the axe to public spending would pay for tax cuts.
The billionaire mining magnate and Liberal party donor used her speech at a National Mining Day event hosted by Santos last week to outline her vision of a stripped-back Australian Public Service.

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Drill, baby, drill

As Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has few qualms about giving out advice to the country’s leaders – and the odd museum curator.

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Why invest in Australia?

It says something about national smugness when the feelings of the ‘Jidirah Spirit Whale’, which tells all the fish in the sea what to eat, when to mate, and where to migrate, overrides an $18.7 billion Woodside offshore gas project with the capacity to power 8.5 million homes for 30 years.

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