1 March 2015 Liz Wells BBC News Foreign investment in Australia is rarely far from the headlines with claims offshore buyers are inflating house prices and controlling too much of the country’s
17 March 2015 “I asked various political people present tonight how many government approvals, permits, licences they believed were required for Roy Hill, and received the usual responses, ‘several hundred.’ And the
13 March 2015 John Garnaut WA Today Australia’s biggest-ever bilateral trade deal is set to grow much bigger, with China agreeing to a special ratchet clause that will ensure that future benefits
5 March 2015 The Australian The federal government’s blueprint for developing northern Australia will be released by mid-year. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told parliament Trade Minister Andrew Robb was finalising the white
6 March 2015 Cairns Post PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has assured a long-awaited report into unlocking the economic potential of Northern Australia will be released by midyear. Mr Abbott told parliament yesterday
3 March 2015 Colin Bettles Farm Weekly FEDERAL Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has endorsed Australian agriculture as a critical moral and economic activity that underpins the national interest. During a passionate plea
4 March 2015 Tim Binsted The Australian Financial Review Geoff Raby, Australia’s former ambassador to Beijing, says Chinese interest in Australian farms and processing assets is surging, despite the Abbott government’s crackdown
27 February 2015 Daniel Bateman The Cairns Post THE Queensland election has been blamed for further delays in the release of the report into unlocking the economic potential of Northern Australia. Prime
3 March 2015 Tablelander CONTINUED heat on the Abbott Government to table the six-months-late Northern Australia White Paper is sending government officials into a spin. During Senate Estimates last week, questions about
20 February 2015 Mahesh Kulkarni Business Standard A day after Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu made a strong pitch for investment from aerospace and defence majors at Aero India, its
23 February 2015 Sarah-Jane Tasker The Australian AUSTRALIA’S coal sector contributed $66.2 billion to the east coast economy in one year, a figure top miners warn is at risk from “unsupportive” governments
20 February 2015 Jon Condon Beef Central PM Tony Abbott has officially opened the Australian Agricultural Company’s new northern beef processing facility south of Darwin. Read the full article here. Courtesy of