Govt backs cross-border economic zone with RM850m in industry and talent incentives
Malaysia pledges significant financing, streamlined approvals and skills development to drive investor confidence and advance regional integration
RBA trapped by low productivity
Government not pulling its weight in lifting the inflation burden.
Miners blast ‘disastrous’ tax proposal
The resources industry has come out swinging over a Productivity Commission proposal for a 5 per cent cashflow tax as the federal government seeks a way to plug a budget black hole.
Victorian energy transition doubts grow as RWE abandons Gippsland offshore wind farm plans
German energy giant RWE has scrapped plans to develop a major offshore wind farm in Victoria, delivering a fresh setback to the state’s already fragile energy transition.
Fortescue bows to China on costs
Fortescue will be a big customer for zero-emissions mining equipment from China, having learnt the lesson that developed nations cannot compete with China on manufacturing.
Trim the budget fat: Mark McGowan tells Jim Chalmers
One of Labor’s most successful premiers, Mark McGowan, and business chiefs are warning Jim Chalmers to prioritise spending restraint over higher taxes, as trade unions demand new levies on property investors, gas companies and the wealthy to plug the budget black hole created by the overhaul of the super tax.
Revealed: the stunning scale of the renewables rollout
Australia’s renewable energy revolution will require 25,000 wind towers and 250 million solar panels across an area larger than Sydney, new mapping reveals.
Climate corruption: The Senate submissions stitch-up
After lodging my submission, as punishment for being on the wagon, I read the other 168 submissions to the Orwellian-sounding Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. This is a stitch-up by Labor’s Ministry of Truth, together with the Greens and an independent. It will silence Australians by bullying, corruption, banning of criticism, restricting free speech and promoting legal and financial tactics to protect people from what the Ministry deems ‘wrong’ information.
There’s Misinformation. Disinformation. And then there is Chrisinformation.
Chris Bowen can’t or won’t explain his claim about the scale of Australia’s renewables rollout, as a conservationist accuses him of misrepresenting a group that has mapped it.
Doubling down on net zero as emissions grow
Is the world cooling on net zero? If this is so, Australia’s extraordinarily high emissions reduction target of 62 to 70 per cent for 2035 looks like a classic case of economic self-harm.
