
Excessive spending means big tax
Governments must break their addiction to spending or taxes as a share of GDP will soar, hurting living standards and growth. Victoria’s parlous situation exemplifies the risks.

Governments must break their addiction to spending or taxes as a share of GDP will soar, hurting living standards and growth. Victoria’s parlous situation exemplifies the risks.

The world’s biggest supplier of non-China rare earths, Lynas, is evaluating diesel fuel and gas alternatives to a defective power supply contract that has intermittently stranded its $800m processing plant near Kalgoorlie.

BHP’s massive copper expansion in South Australia was once a certainty, but the megaproject is now shaping up as a test of Australia’s economic future

Let’s recognise and celebrate the people, innovation, resilience and can-do spirit that make mining great!

Former treasurer Peter Costello has accused the Productivity Commission of becoming ‘politically correct’ and failing to challenge the Albanese government on workplace reforms.

Led by Executive Chairman Gina Rinehart AO, we’re for supporting agriculture and all related industries to thrive.

Financial regulators are sharpening their focus on the consumer credit market, warning that more Australians are going bust due to bad car loans and ballooning personal debts.

‘To be completely frank, if we have a net zero policy, I don’t know what it is. The bottom line is we need to create wealth.” This is what one of Argentina’s senior government ministers tells me halfway through an interview in Buenos Aires this week.

We’re for welcoming, appreciating, and thanking those who have served in the defence of our great nation.

Australia’s economy is at risk of being “boxed in” by its own capacity constraints that could lead to higher inflation and “little room” for further interest rate cuts, the Reserve Bank has warned, while economists say government spending on unproductive investments will compound the risk.

Government lawyers have asked a court to keep troves of evidence from public view in a judicial review scrutinising Tanya Plibersek’s decision to block the development of the $1bn Blayney gold mine.