This Month
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Unions line up to back offshore gas against environmental activists
The AWU and MUA say vulnerabilities in Australia’s approvals regime are being exploited to stop or delay major projects and must be changed to save jobs.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Beetaloo’s Tamboran shrugs off Greens-Labor ‘water trigger’ move
But the nation’s gas lobby slammed this week’s surprise deal to expand scrutiny of gas projects as a costly duplication of state laws.
- Jacob Greber
‘Offsets’ killed in Greens deal with Labor on nature repair and gas
Labor’s landmark nature “repair” laws will not allow companies to “offset” their habitat destruction after Greens clinch deal in return for greater gas scrutiny.
- Jacob Greber
November
Plibersek hits out at Dutton and Greens obstruction
The environment minister says the opposition leader risks clogging the arteries of government and making the lives of ordinary Australians harder.
- Tom McIlroy
Directors urged to get advice as nature risk turns liability
A groundbreaking legal opinion says company directors who fail to consider the toll on nature could be in breach of their duty of care and diligence obligations.
- James Eyers
October
Critical minerals projects ‘at risk from Labor environment plan’
Investment and jobs in Western Australia’s resources sector are at risk from the Albanese government’s environmental protection laws, industry warns.
- Tom Rabe
September
New business guidelines aim to help firms account for impact on nature
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released its final rules on nature risk, which will force banks to understand the effects of lending.
- James Eyers
Green tape, IR shake-up threatens critical minerals boom: miners
A report by the mining industry warns Australia risks missing out on billions of dollars unless it makes investment in critical minerals more attractive.
- Andrew Tillett
August
Bauxite miner hits out at West Australia’s permitting delays
Alumina boss Mike Ferraro is happy for WA environment regulators to better scrutinise bauxite mining in the state, but he “can’t live with” delays.
- Peter Ker
June
- Exclusive
- Private equity
Adamantem nets $150m for fund focused on sustainable assets
It signed its first deal for the new strategy with bamboo serving ware and food packaging business PAC Trading.
- Aaron Weinman
Newcrest’s Cadia mine ordered to address pollution or lose licence
The company is facing tough action from the NSW Environmental Protection Authority over dust pollution for the second time in a year
- Samantha Hutchinson
ASIC chairman Longo takes aim at corporate ‘greenhushers’
Some companies are threatening to stop voluntary ESG disclosures, drawing rebukes from regulators who say that sounds like boards want only marketing wins.
- Jacob Greber
April
Blowout feared in transmission costs as energy transition worries grow
An estimate that transmission projects could cost up to 40 per cent more than thought has further stoked worries about the burden of the transition on consumers.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Vic’s flagship transmission project a ‘monumental mistake’
Arguments over the large VNI West project lay bare the fundamental divisions over the need for major new transmission lines to support the energy transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Independents got more votes than the National Party on March 25
The advocacy group’s chief executive Byron Fay revealed that it backed Sydney independent Alex Greenwich during the election campaign.
- Samantha Hutchinson
March
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: Let’s not overrate our banks
Australian banks’ safety – and customer service; tax policy; gas projects and emissions rules; environmental repair; unfair to Downer; Tasmanian devils; Liberal Party.
- Opinion
- Tanya Plibersek
38 unloved trees and Tanya Plibersek’s poisoned chalice
Required by Anthony Albanese to approve gas and coal projects, the environment minister has a plan to protect her reputation.
- Aaron Patrick
January
World is ‘way off track’ with climate goals, says UAE’s COP president
Emirati Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber was speaking publicly for the first time since being becoming president of COP28 - an appointment criticised by environmentalists.
- Paul Wallace and Anthony Di Paola
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
Australia urgently needs a trusted carbon market
Greater transparency and more robust assessments means scaling up the carbon market should start without delay.
- John Connor
December 2022
Court dismisses case accusing environmental regulator of breach of law
An environmental charity had claimed that the EPA’s alterations to licences owned by AGL, Alinta Energy and EnergyAustralia were illegal.
- Hannah Wootton
