
Private enterprise the best route to independence
Reliance on government leg-ups helps no one and stifles ambition, writes liberal senator Nampijinpa Price
Reliance on government leg-ups helps no one and stifles ambition, writes liberal senator Nampijinpa Price
Britain’s Labour government has agreed to take a £17.8bn ($36.9bn) stake in building a nuclear power plant as fears rise that the country’s rush to build wind and solar farms is leaving the grid vulnerable to outages.
The Australian Government’s proposal to tax unrealised gains that will capture agricultural land in super exceeding $3 million is a serious cause for concern to rural Australia.
As Gina Rinehart announced the 3000-strong workforce of Roy Hill and the contractor-driven Atlas Iron would become a single entity, she couldn’t resist handing some advice to the government.
Federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has declared it’s to hard to build a home in Australia and has outlined a new plan to push State and local governments to slash red tape.
Green activists will slow Australia’s clean energy rollout and jeopardise Labor’s broader climate goals unless governments consider changing the location of planned renewables zones to accommodate environmental and land rights concerns.
Economists from the ‘big four’ banks have cut their growth expectations for the first quarter of this year ahead of official figures released on Wednesday.
Australia is on the brink of sliding back into another per capita recession after new GDP figures showed “anaemic” growth in the March quarter.
Gina Rinehart Wishing all West Australians a very happy Western Australia Day.
Labor’s new Minister for Industry and Science Tim Ayres has told critics of the government’s super tax policy they can afford to manage the impact on their wealth, as some of Australia’s richest people including Gina Rinehart and Jack Cowin warned it will stymie investment.