The Environmental Defenders Office and the consultants they used to prepare the heavily criticised evidence at the centre of their failed legal challenge against oil and gas producer Santos are set to be referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission.
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Damning admission on mine decision
There was “no person” on Tanya Plibersek’s staff who could tell if the Blayney goldmine could recover from her heritage decision, department documents show, despite later assurances there was “no impediment” to it.
Read moreBallooning public service is no fix for stagnant growth
The balance of the economy is tipping too far to big government.
Read moreBusiness Chiefs Revive Push to Cut Tax Impost
Business leaders are reviving calls for Anthony Albanese to lower the corporate tax rate, warning Australian businesses will be increasingly uncompetitive under Donald Trump’s plans to slash company taxes in the United States to 15 per cent.
Read moreCourt Bid to Reverse Blayney Mine Call
Mining conglomerate Regis Resources will take Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to the Federal Court over her decision to heritage-list part of the $1bn Blayney gold mine site on the advice of a rebel Indigenous group.
Read moreResources jobs at record high despite battery metals carnage and gold reclaims lithium’s crown
The State Government has touted another year of strong jobs growth in the mining sector, despite the State’s lifeblood industry copping a $16 billion fall in overall mineral and petroleum sales for the year.
Read moreNuclear Incentive Plan OK: O’Brien
Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien says business leader Ryan Stokes is right in suggesting communities earmarked to host nuclear power plants must be offered lucrative incentives.
Read morePrivate sector funds care economy
Reforms of IR, tax, energy and red and green tape would lift growth.
Read moreSecret business is for the bees
Earlier this week Ms Plibersek cited a mural on a post office in Bathurst as proof of the existence of the blue-banded bee Dreaming story, one of the central reasons she killed the Blayney goldmine proposal, despite evidence from the local land council that the story is not Wiradjuri tradition.
Read moreHow Plibersek Stung Goldmine Plan
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has cited a mural on a central NSW post office as proof of the existence of the blue-banded bee dreaming story, one of the central reasons she killed the Blayney goldmine proposal despite evidence from the local land council that the story is not Wiradjuri tradition.
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