9 November 2015Phil EdmandsThe Australian Northern Australia is the underdeveloped frontier of the “lucky country”. The pathway to further economic prosperity for the Top End hinges on two factors: governments must establish the
9 November 2015Mark LudlowQueensland Country Life THE federal government will offer $5 billion in concessional loans from mid-next year to major projects that facilitate further investment from the private sector and state
3 September 2015Lyndon KeaneNorth Queensland Register A KATHERINE forum has been told that more than 95 per cent of the country’s population needs to rethink how it views its northern cousins if
1 September 2015Dylan Welch and Jeanavive McGregorABC News From vast Central Australian cattle stations to the smallest southern Victorian dairy farms, the Australian agriculture sector is expecting a transformation later this year,
19 August 2015Andy HoffmanAustralian Financial Review The iron-ore business is so lousy that one Canadian mining company is shelving its biggest project and starting a new venture: selling Australian eggs to China. The
24 August 2015Ruby JonesABC News A pipeline that would supply east coast markets with shale gas fracked in the Northern Territory will be up and running by 2018, NT Chief Minister Adam
31 August 2015Mark WillacyABC News The expansion of a controversial Queensland coal mine has cleared another hurdle, with the state’s environment department issuing a draft authority for the $900 million project. Key
31 August 2015Emma BrownABC Rural The Victorian Farmers Federation has joined calls to ratify the China Free Trade Agreement. AUDIO: Victorian Farmers Federation President Peter Tuohey on the China FTA (ABC Rural) The agriculture
26 August 2015Angela Macdonald-SmithThe Sydney Morning Herald US oil major ConocoPhillips is targeting mid-2018 for a go-ahead on a potential $US15 billion ($21 billion) offshore gas development off northern Australia to feed
23 August 2015Andrew RobbMinister for Trade and Investment Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb will visit Kuala Lumpur from 23 to 24 August and Hong Kong from 25 to 26 August, and
19 August 2015Mark Ludlow & Misa HanAustralian Financial Review Townsville mayor Jenny Hill doesn’t hide the fact she wants Adani’s controversial $16.5 billion Carmichael mine in central Queensland to go ahead. “We
24 August 2015Saskia Edwards & Steve AustinABC Radio In the last month green groups have had a win against the Adani Carmichael mine with the mine’s approval overturned for a skink and