Australia exposed as China rewrites green economy
The shuttering of a Western Australian lithium refinery after just four years should serve as a warning as China pumps more than A$160 billion into overseas critical minerals and metals…
Jobs data to help guide Reserve Bank’s May rates move
Australia’s jobs market is expected to give the Reserve Bank more to worry about. Economists predict official labour force data, due to be released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics…
Liquidator: “Happy to lose $350k, let the boat go to scrap”
“Happy to lose $350k and let the boat go to scrap”, says the email from liquidator Hall Chadwick’s associates to Kimberley Pearl Tours. What’s the scam? The scam is Section…
‘Petulant’ Trump blasts Australia for shunning Iran war
Donald Trump has declared the US doesn’t need the help of Australia and other allies who rejected US calls for partners to help take back a major oil-shipping corridor. In…
The Big Australian names its next chief executive
The Big Australian is getting a new boss. Brandon Craig will become the chief executive of BHP on July 1, replacing Mike Henry, who will step down after six and…
Hoodwinked. How BHP bulldozed a coal miner in court
The latest manoeuvre by BHP and co in their Goliath v David court case against an injured coal miner is to run him out of money, which he doesn’t have.…
Murderer wins High Court case against government
Curfew and ankle monitoring restrictions imposed on a convicted murderer after his release from immigration detention have been declared invalid by the nation’s highest court. A Papua New Guinea citizen…
Australia’s universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth
Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort Universities are in crisis. Federal…
Investor tax-break cuts no ‘silver bullet’ for housing
Labor appears set to scale back tax concessions for property investors in a move welcomed by economists and social housing advocates. But while it’s set to boost intergenerational equity and…
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog | Martin Gelin
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too The US is no longer a democracy. One of the…