Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart is not used to being upstaged, but an insistent horse left her in helpless fits of laughter as it kept interrupting her speech.
Day two of the 2024 Bush Summit has featured addresses from Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and mining magnate Gina Rinehart, as attendees tune in to discussions over the key issues facing Australia’s regional communities.
Despite much hype, the much-vaunted green energy transition away from fossil fuels isn’t happening. Achieving a meaningful shift with current policies turns out to be unaffordably costly. We need to drastically change policy direction.
We need a mindset change, and we need this quickly.
Nearly three-quarters of Australian farmers believe the Albanese government’s policies are hurting the industry, according to a new survey by the agriculture sector’s peak industry body.
The futile attempt by the Albanese Labor Government to restart manufacturing in Australia is indicative of their total failure to understand the reasons why manufacturing continues to fail.
Australians living in the bush are struggling with cost of living and housing affordability as much as their city counterparts and desperately want the lack of health services and rampant crime addressed.
Farmers say their exports will become less competitive if Labor refuses to carve agriculture out of a key plank of its climate policy, raising pressure on Jim Chalmers to overhaul a mandatory requirement for companies to disclose climate risks.
Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has talked a big game about the positive impact of wind and solar farms on regional communities in the energy transition to net-zero emissions.
