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resources December 6, 2025
Watt reforms leave door wide open to environmental carnage
ANALYSIS: Murray Watt’s environmental reforms will do little to protect the environment and a lot to benefit big business.
international relations November 29, 2025
Australia’s crude Russian oil secret
A shadowy network of ‘dark fleets’ is allowing Russia’s oil export market to escape sanction and threatens to undo any of the good Australia has done in supplying military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
business September 27, 2025
Secrecy over leaking gas tank sinks Santos deal
A methane leak that remains unchecked helped derail what would have been the biggest all-cash takeover in Australian corporate history.
resources August 30, 2025
Labor ‘playing politics’ with Joyce’s net zero bill
The government has given ‘unprecedented’ time to Barnaby Joyce’s net zero bill weeks before it must deliver a new midterm emissions reduction target.
business August 23, 2025
‘Long may she reign’: How powerful is Gina Rinehart?
Having lost her close relationship with Peter Dutton, Gina Rinehart is working to exert influence in a radically different Canberra.
resources October 5, 2024
The Plibersek interview: ‘We’re caught up in macho posturing’
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, Tanya Plibersek says she is still negotiating with the cross bench and believes she can pass Labor’s environment reform.
resources August 24, 2024
Plibersek defends ruling against NSW goldmine
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, Tanya Plibersek has defended her decision to halt a goldmine outside Bathurst while at the same time pushing for legislative reform.
resources March 2, 2024
Morwell’s blaze: ‘I shouldn’t have gone down there’
Ten years ago, Martin McKenzie-Murray saw the destruction of Morwell’s coal mine fire. Its legacy is a community disillusioned and abandoned by a corporate disaster.
resources December 9, 2023
The bill that could stop fracking at Beetaloo Basin
A concession to the Greens over the Nature Repair bill has handed the environment minister a means to obstruct the Beetaloo Basin fracking project – the question now is whether she will use it.
resources September 16, 2023
How to build a green economic boom
This second instalment of a two-part series explains how Australia can create a thriving economy based on green energy and manufacturing, while helping the world shift to renewables.
resources July 15, 2023
Fact check: Green hydrogen’s big promise
Australia’s plan to become a renewable superpower is focused on pouring more money into green hydrogen. Can it live up to the hype?
