The Troubled Energy Transition

How to Find a Pragmatic Path Forward

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Business groups’ pre-election warning to both sides: reform or perish

Business groups get back to basics, warning that the economy will suffer unless union power is curbed, payroll tax abolished and major projects approved without delay.

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Woodside Energy: Australia has to sharpen up to win global trade battle, Meg O’Neill warns

Amid rising global protectionism and greater competition for capital, Australia must sharpen its competitive edge even further.

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Miners to fight new green push

Chamber takes aim at Labor’s plan for nature positive laws.

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Rinehart hails President with plans for spending spree in US

Gina Rinehart says incoming US President Donald Trump has started the greatest “non-Left, non-woke” movement sweeping the world, and has flagged investing billions of dollars in America.

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Donald Trump’s inauguration speech transcript

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.

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WA Should Follow NT’s Lead And Appoint A Red-Tape Slayer

Australia is in desperate need of economic reform. Productivity is low, private investment is stagnating, and Australians are personally struggling after nearly two years of a per capita recession.

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PM stares down multiple concerns over minerals

Anthony Albanese has backed in his government’s critical minerals tax incentive despite concerns from mining groups – now echoed by the West Australian Labor government – about duplication of green tape and Indigenous consultation under the Future Made in Australia agenda.

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‘Irrelevant claims swayed Plibersek’

Mining conglomerate Regis ­Resources will argue Tanya Plibersek’s decision to partially block the Blayney goldmine development in NSW was riddled with “irrelevant considerations” and used Indigenous cultural heritage as a trojan horse for environmentalism, court documents show.

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Ignite competition or risk reputation as business basket case

As I’ve just returned from a week in North America learning from local business leaders, one thing is clearer than ever in my mind: if Australia is to be an attractive place for global businesses to invest, hire and grow, we need to get our skates on – and fast.

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