The wrecking ball swinging through private sector jobs offers no guarantee Australia will lift its dismal productivity because the benefits of tough calls are being undone by a bloated public service.
Australia is becoming a “significantly harder” place to do business, BHP WA iron ore boss Tim Day warns, ramping up implicit threats by the Big Australian that more of its investment may shift overseas.
Australians seeking an environmentally friendly, healthy diet should keep eating red meat, says the CSIRO’s former principal research scientist, who warns against blindly adopting global dietary guidelines that reduce meat intake.
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31 October 2026
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Iron Ore generated a $1.8 billion net profit for the 2026 financial year as Australia’s richest person warned policymakers that “mines don’t last forever”.
Hancock Prospecting was delighted to receive an award at last night’s WA Regional Achievement Awards, recognising 15+ years of partnership and support for the program through the Rinehart Development of Northern Regional WA Award.
The One Nation leader attacked the Treasurer’s lack of private sector experience and told business chiefs her party is their champion.
The warning by ratings agency S&P that the Albanese government and the Reserve Bank are pulling in different directions needs to be the starting point in a wholesale turnaround in economic policy and political rhetoric.
The navy’s two largest ships are out of action as maintenance shortfalls undercut the government’s strategy to create a force modelled on the US Marine Corps that would defend the nation’s northern approaches.
ATO data reveals nation’s biggest corporate taxpayers as total haul reaches $87.5bn
Kevin Rudd has issued an implicit challenge to the Albanese government to embrace radical new thinking and an East Asian-style commitment to industry policy or risk Australia slipping out of “the first rank of nations”.