Rio Tinto and BHP’s mega copper project in Arizona skips queue in critical minerals priority list
Rio Tinto and BHP are big winners from the White House’s battle with China to seize control of critical minerals used in energy and military projects after the White House fast-tracked the duo’s Resolution copper project in Arizona.
Gina Rinehart gives opening speech to the opening of IPA Retreat
Australia should learn from the example five world leaders have set in reforming their countries by putting a pink bulldozer through wasteful governments and defying woke ideology, says mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
Departing Chevron boss Mark Hatfield rings investment reliability alarm
Outgoing Chevron Australia chief Mark Hatfield says Australia is at a crossroads when it comes to the future of the oil and gas sector as an attractive destination for investment.
Soaring property taxes are one of the key reasons for housing unaffordability in WA
With the Federal election now in full swing, it is timely to raise the question of why Australia is now becoming one of the least affordable places in the world to own a home and its connection to the spiralling government taxes on property.
Korean giant strikes out at gas intervention
The largest South Korean investor in Australia and one of the world’s biggest buyers of LNG has attacked political intervention in the domestic market and questioned whether it can rely on multibillion-dollar deals it has struck with local producers to buy energy.
Gas giants say Australia opposition’s plan to reserve supplies could worsen shortfall
Global gas giants said on Tuesday an election campaign proposal by Australia’s opposition coalition that would force producers to direct more export gas into the domestic market would deter investment without tackling looming shortages.
Business leaders fret about minority government deals as an economic ‘disaster’ in the making
The role of the Greens and teals in the 2025 federal election is striking fear into the hearts of some business leaders. Others just want to get on with governing.
Election 2025: ‘Battler business’ campaign blitz pressures Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton on company tax cuts
Small business owners have launched an election blitz of marginal seats, pressuring Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to slash company taxes for mum-and-dad operators.
It’s a surplus of fantasy: $100bn deficit in a decade
Treasury’s expectation that the budget will return to surplus in a decade is based on “fanciful” assumption, new research authored by the e61 Institute has claimed.
Saxon Davidson: Budget shows Anthony Albanese to take back Roger Cook’s political gift on nature positive
They say timing is everything in politics. In February, prior to the State election, Premier Roger Cook led the charge to have the Federal Government’s economy-destroying Nature Positive agenda halted so as not to have it undermine his re-election chances.