Calls to cut red tape attract hearty cheers from farmers
Calls to cut red tape attract hearty cheers from farmers
Calls to cut red tape attract hearty cheers from farmers
Hancock Agriculture CEO Adam Giles discusses the responsibility of managing one of Australia’s most iconic pastoral businesses, preserving the legacy of Sir Sidney Kidman, and Gina Rinehart’s investment in agriculture, Wagyu and the Kidman cattle business.
The people who feed and power Australia are being strangled by red tape, a senior agribusiness leader warns, urging sweeping structural reform to save the bush, writes Adam Giles.
Wind turbines in Aussie towns are wreaking havoc, with foreign-owned renewable energy companies accused of using secretive tactics which are dividing regional communities.
Victoria’s renewable energy ambitions have hit a wall, with new polling revealing Gippsland residents overwhelmingly reject paying more to speed up the transition.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has again refused to say how much taxpayers have been billed for the green energy Capacity Investment Scheme, saying it was not uncommon for the government not to reveal costs for such programs.
Anthony Albanese has recruited an army of bureaucrats dedicated to red tape and enforcement while going slow on deploying artificial intelligence despite flatlining productivity, as the Labor government dramatically increases the number of permanent public service staff.
During his recent visit to Australia, the head of the International Energy Agency warned us “that the dark and long shadows of geopolitics are all over the energy sector now”.
The Northern Territory is poised at the edge of a resources boom but the opportunity will pass by without dedicated efforts to make it happen, according to industry leaders.
Why does the Northern Territory remain reliant on federal taxpayer funding, and given the record and increasing government debt, combined with the lack of importance for territory votes that federal parties outside the territory have, how long can it rely on the extent of such taxpayer funding?
One of Australia’s richest food regions cannot feed the nation it sustains – buried under $160bn in annual red tape costs and record government debt. OPINION
Farmers and local leaders are waging war with the NSW government over renewable energy transmission lines they say could be part of a $20 billion ‘white elephant’ project.
