Ebony Bennett began her career as a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review. She appears regularly as a commentator on ABC and Sky News and has a fortnightly column in The Canberra Times. She is deputy director of the Australia Institute and host of its Follow the Money podcast.
Every week Australia delays introducing a 25% gas export tax is costing us $350 million. It’s a lot of lost revenue to ignore when your government has announced it will cut 160,000 people from the NDIS ahead of the Federal Budget.
New South Wales is the first state in Australia to ban new coal mines. The State Government announced on Friday that it will no longer consider applications for new mines or allow new coal exploration, while extensions to existing mines will still be considered.
