When Rio Tinto’s board recently met in Montreal, there were half a dozen top officials from the Quebec government as well as senior ministers from Ottawa. the Canadian capital, along for a session.
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.
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.
The country’s new free zones plan can foster its rich tech and services potential.
Academic, legal and activist figures in the failed Environmental Defenders Office bid to scuttle a $5.8bn gas field near the Tiwi Islands concocted a rainbow serpent and crocodile man songline map based on guesswork and minimal consultation with Indigenous leaders, according to court documents.
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.
As Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart has few qualms about giving out advice to the country’s leaders – and the odd museum curator.
Output in the US economy rose to a 31-month high after American businesses cheered on the election of Donald Trump and the prospect of lower corporate taxes and a wave of deregulation.
Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s rallying cry to Australians ahead of the federal election is “make our bank accounts great again” as she urges the Coalition to follow the lead of Donald Trump with an uncompromising policy agenda.
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.
Australia is confronted by three big changes in our strategic circumstances that are making our steady-as-you-go approaches to security and economic development untenable.
We face a markedly increased risk of war in the Indo-Pacific; the global economy is restructuring rapidly in adverse ways; and the Australian economy has stalled with essentially zero productivity growth, declining international competitiveness and a flight of much-needed investment.