1 March 2014 Amos Aikman The Australian KEY themes of a Coalition green paper on developing Australia’s north will include infrastructure investment, land-tenure reform, improving water management, and boosting trade, innovation, research
“Economics in One Lesson is an introduction to free market economics written by Henry Hazlitt and first published in 1946. The “One Lesson” is stated in Part One of the book: The
24 January 2014 Denise Tsang, Jeanny Yu and Benjamin Robertson South China Morning Post The mainland’s decision to create 12 free-trade zones, in addition to Shanghai, begs the question whether they could
28 February 2014 Lisa Steyn Mail & Guardian Meaningful incentives such as tax breaks and labour reform are finally on the cards for the special economic zones (SEZs) but they face continued
28 February 2014 Office of the Prime Minister The Premiers of Queensland and Western Australia and the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory have agreed to join a new Strategic Partnership to
20 February 2014 Matt Brann ABC Rural The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) is spending $91 million to build a meatworks near Darwin, in what is probably the biggest and most important agricultural
28 February 2014 Neda Vanovac AAP PLANS for the development of northern Australia are advancing as the federal government seeks to take advantage of Asia’s economic boom. The premiers of Queensland and
25 February 2014 ABC News The Northern Territory Government has approved its first onshore petroleum licence in more than 30 years. The Surprise oil field in the Amadeus Basin was discovered two
26 February 2014 Cole Latimer Ferret BGC Contracting has won a $60 million contract to supply ballast for Roy Hill’s railway system. The contract will see BGC provide more than one million
26 February 2014 Sharon Klyne, Joyce Lee and Prakash Chakravarti Reuters Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill iron ore project is close to finalising a $7.8 billion financing deal, sources said, a
25 February 2014 ABC News Leaders from Western Australia’s Pilbara, Kimberley and mid-west have met their eastern counterparts to swap notes on developing northern Australia. Regional Development Australia (RDA) committees from WA,
24 February 2014 Angela MacDonald-Smith Stock & Land Over the weekend, the NT government appointed investment bank Flagstaff Partners to devise a strategy for introducing private investment into the port, although Mr