25 . 06 . 2025
Gina Rinehart labels net zero a ‘magic pudding’ and says Australia should aspire to be like the United States
Gina Rinehart says net zero is an “unobtainable and expensive magic pudding”, and believes Australia should follow the lead of the US.
25 . 06 . 2025
Gina Rinehart labels net zero a ‘magic pudding’ and says Australia should aspire to be like the United States
Gina Rinehart says net zero is an “unobtainable and expensive magic pudding”, and believes Australia should follow the lead of the US.
24 . 06 . 2025
Rinehart lashes ‘magic pudding’ net zero
Gina Rinehart has lashed net zero as “unobtainable and expensive”, while celebrating Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto’s Hope Downs 2 $2.5 billion investment call.
24 . 06 . 2025
Resources Minister Madeleine King flags market intervention if war cuts LNG exports from Qatar, UAE
Resources Minister Madeleine King has reassured domestic gas users that they will be protected from any supply and pricing fallout in the wake of Iran’s threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
23 . 06 . 2025
Australian miners and smelters call for state aid during energy transition
Some of the country’s biggest industrial names are hit hardest as rising electricity costs and volatile commodity prices put their businesses at risk
20 . 06 . 2025
Net zero is Australia’s biggest self-imposed economic burden
When I began writing about economics at The Australian more than a decade ago, these pages were filled with optimism: the resource boom was in full swing, the phrase “miracle economy” still prevalent. If we had a problem it was a “two-speed” economy, and an Australian dollar that was almost as valuable as the greenback.
18 . 06 . 2025
Why the world cannot quit coal
Ten years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, demand for coal shows no sign of peaking
18 . 06 . 2025
Australia’s energy future lies with Chalmers with Abu Dhabi’s $30bn Santos takeover tilt
The Middle Eastern capital community under the banner of the Abu Dhabi group is set to make a fortune if it wins control of Santos.
17 . 06 . 2025
Brian Burke: WA headed for an energy crunch within the next few years
China consumes as much coal in eight hours as Western Australia uses in 12 months but, as the result of the politically palatable decision to cease using coal by 2030, we are sleepwalking into an energy disaster.
14 . 06 . 2025
‘Bailing out bad decisions’: Queensland slams Victoria over gas supply
Victoria cannot rely on pulling more gas from Queensland to shore up an energy system pushed to the edge by a cascading set of breakdowns and concerns over the reliability of renewables, with the pipeline flowing south already at full capacity.
