Mining giant Rio Tinto and its partner in the Rhodes Ridge joint venture have informed Federal environmental regulators that they would no longer push ahead with a long-awaited proposal to mine the Giles Mini deposit near Newman due to its impact on potential roosting sites for the vulnerable Ghost Bat.
The Albanese government is facing a loss of social licence for its energy transition, particularly in regional areas. A recent survey confirmed this decline, with less than half of the respondents (47 per cent) feeling positive about the renewables transition compared with the peak of 70 per cent in August 2022.
It was meant to be the last piece of the net-zero jigsaw – green hydrogen. The renewable energy plus batteries pieces were (sort of) in place. Green hydrogen, using electrolysis powered by renewable energy, would be the means whereby hard-to-decarbonise sectors could achieve net-zero emissions.
IN the current agricultural landscape, it’s hard to talk about industry issues without talking about politics.
Everything from crippling overregulation to the stagnation of grain and livestock prices was on the agenda at the Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA’s 2024 annual convention.
National Farmers Federation board member Lisa Minogue says the sector will find it increasingly difficult to produce food unless Canberra starts listening to the concerns of rural Australia.
Frustrated voters across the world are getting less and less from their countries’ administrations that are all continuing to grow and grow.
Business Council of Australia (BCA) chief executive Bran Black is set to tell Mr Albanese in a speech on Tuesday night that leaders of many major companies ‘feel we are losing our way’ economically under Labor.
Industrial relations is shaping as a major electoral battlefield with the nation’s peak business lobby warning that Australia is taking “steps backward” under Labor’s new workplace rules and growing red tape.
Labor and the Coalition are consigning younger generations to a future of higher taxes, ballooning government debt and poorer living standards, Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black will warn.
It is hard to fathom that what is now the Zone Tax Offset (ZTO), originally established in 1945, has barely evolved in more than 70 years.
Australia may need to convert an area the size of Belgium into forest to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, according to a Climate Change Authority report that has sparked fierce criticism from farmers, who say it would harm food production.
