Monumental bureaucracy has Australia’s gas juniors in a world of pain

Producers’ complaints about unwieldy and costly approvals processes have taken on an extra edge amid worries on domestic shortages and a global LNG squeeze.

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Dookie farms under threat

Farmers in northern Victoria’s Dookie region said they were blindsided by plans to declare the area a Renewable Energy Zone, warning the move threatens some of the most productive cropping land in the state.

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Rita Panahi: Australian politicians are sacrificing our energy security to appease the green gods

The war against the Iranian regime has laid bare Australia’s fuel folly. It’s time our leaders stop sacrificing energy security to appease the green gods.

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Our war on fossil fuels is ending in a battle for energy

The so-called ‘experts’ simply did not accept the possibility renewable energy would not replace fossil fuels.

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Does Australia – and Anthony Albanese – have what it takes to drill, baby, drill?

In just two decades, Australia has gone from energy self-sufficiency to dangerous dependence. Like the US, we can turn it around. The question is, will we?

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Is Indonesia’s special economic zone strategy starting to bear fruit?

The country’s 25 SEZs have become a hub for commodity processing and high-tech industries

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‘Renewable’ energy gives us a crisis

Every major energy crisis invites finger-pointing. In 2022, the world blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for a spike in natural-gas prices. This time, it’s attributing the energy crisis to the war in Iran. But challenges in energy production and trade because of geopolitical tension are common.

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Seven in 10 Australians back more oil drilling amid fuel crisis fears

An exclusive new poll shows seven in 10 voters want domestic oil production ramped up to improve Australia’s fuel security – and the majority disapprove of the PM’s handling of the fuel crisis.

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Fuel impacts already being seen in beef production cutbacks, animal welfare concerns

The fuel access and price crisis that’s emerged this month driven by the Iran conflict is already taking a heavy toll on red meat supply chains.

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Economic vulnerability risks crashing our standard of living.

National economic resilience is back in the headlines but it is not just our reliance on imported fuel that needs to keep our policy­makers up at night.

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