Yesterday
How the west’s miners won over Canberra
The production tax credits on critical minerals processing unveiled in the federal budget were the result of months of careful negotiations that started with a meeting in Perth.
- Brad Thompson
This Month
- Opinion
- Federal budget
It’s right for Australia to join the critical minerals subsidy rush
The scepticism about government interventions is understandable. But this time, they are creating new industries of immense value.
- Warren Pearce
Dutton rejects ‘Rich Lister’ tax cuts
The opposition has blasted $27.8 billion in production credits in the budget as “tax cuts for billionaires”, vowing to repeal them if elected.
- Phillip Coorey and Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Federal budget
The costs of the future still start adding up today
Jim Chalmers is betting he can get the balance right between curbing inflation in the short term while promoting growth in the longer term.
- Jennifer Hewett
New gas projects receive support amid Labor unease
Resources Minister Madeleine King has backed the development of the Narrabri gas field in NSW, and the Queensland Labor government has given the green light to four new projects in the Bowen Basin.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Budget week is time for Dutton to roll a few Jaffas down the aisle
In the same week Peter Dutton went in to bat for the koalas, Labor flew the flag for gas.
- Phillip Coorey
Federal government backs gas imports to southern states
The extra gas will need to be delivered from the northern states from a retooled national gas network or LNG import terminals.
- Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- Gas
Why Albanese is going all in on gas
The Labor government has infuriated climate activists by insisting that gas will play a crucial role in the energy transition for many decades to come. Big producers like Woodside will wait to see what that means.
- Jennifer Hewett
ANZ hardens policy against bankrolling oil and gas projects
The bank says it will “no longer provide direct financing to new or expansion upstream” projects, practically ruling out lending to the largest proposals.
- Ben Potter
Labor backs gas ‘to 2050 and beyond’
The government has shed its ambivalence towards gas and adopted a strategy that locks in its use for several more decades along with measures to promote carbon capture.
- Phillip Coorey
April
Nickel miner axes 530 jobs as pressure builds for budget bailout
Resources Minister Madeleine King says government alone cannot solve nickel industry woes as job losses near 2000 since December.
- Brad Thompson
King opts out of call on NSW gas project over her past attacks
Resources Minister Madeleine King pulls out of making decisions around high-profile gas project off the coast of NSW that she once described as risky and a threat to jobs.
- Brad Thompson
EU ‘disappointed’ on frozen trade talks, big on SMRs
Labor should “re-engage” over trade co-operation, said EU Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, who advocated the benefits of nuclear power.
- Jacob Greber
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
- Jacob Greber and Gus McCubbing
Queensland to make up Victoria’s gas shortfall this winter
The outlook for July, August and September comes after the Australian Energy Market Operator last month warned of a deterioration in Victoria’s medium-term gas supply.
- Ronald Mizen
Green premiums are real, says aluminium boss
Electric vehicle makers are refusing to pay a green premium for low-carbon nickel but Capral says customers are paying an extra 5 per cent for clean aluminium.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
March
Why EVs are such a big geopolitical deal
Policy changes in the US will have ramifications that will be felt far beyond the autoworkers of Detroit, Michigan.
- Matthew Cranston
PM pours $1b into solar panel manufacturing
The Albanese government will dedicate $1 billion towards the domestic production of solar panels, including in coal-rich Hunter Valley.
- Phillip Coorey and Jacob Greber
Labor pulls gas bill after Greens threaten car emission reforms
Labor halted an offshore gas regulation bill the Coalition said it would support after the Greens threatened to retaliate by scuttling Labor’s car policy.
- Jacob Greber
- Analysis
- Critical minerals
Why BHP’s nickel struggles to match Indonesia’s
A large green premium would be needed to put integrated Australian nickel producers like BHP on par with Indonesian rivals.
- Peter Ker and Elouise Fowler
