The Queensland resources sector is facing some of the toughest conditions in decades, with more than 20,000 jobs lost over the past two years as a result of the downturn. A statement by Queensland...
Category - Government/Policy
The Abbot Point Growth Gateway Project is one step closer to fruition with it’s final environmental impact statement approved by the Commonwealth Government. State Development Minister Dr...
The minerals industry in 2013-14 faced a tax ratio of 47 per cent (including company tax and royalties), according to the annual Minerals Industry Tax Survey released today by the Minerals Council of...
Resource industry employer group AMMA has called on the Federal Government to deregister the CFMEU and the MUA after the unions this week threatened crippling and unlawful strikes at a national level...
Clive Palmer has had an emergency meeting with the State Government to save Queensland Nickel and the jobs of 700 workers. Mr Palmer’s north Queensland Yabulu refinery is seeking almost $50...
Central Queensland indigenous groups have rejected claims Wangan and Jagalingou elders had voted to support the Adani Carmichael Coal Mine and have confirmed legal action is still ongoing. Despite...
The NSW Planning Assessment Commission has recommended that the Drayton South Coal Mine proposal from Anglo American should not proceed, leaving 500 workers out of a job. Anglo American Coal CEO...
The release of the Resources and Energy Major Projects report by the Chief Economist of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science highlights a strong pipeline of resources investment in...
Queensland Resources Council chief executive Michael Roche has released a statement in regards to the ongoing battle between landholders and activists and resource companies. Mr Roche said the...
An advertisement in a statewide rural publication represents “tangible evidence of successful coexistence” between the gas industry and landholders, according to Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham. The...
Labor and the Coalition have reached an agreement on the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement this week. The agreement follows the government’s offer to amend migration regulations to ensure...
The CFMEU have called on Central Queensland Coalition MPs Michelle Landry and George Christensen to reveal details about how their proposed amendment to the Fair Work Act 2009 would actually work to...
