Environmental groups are launching a coordinated push to make native forest protection a national political issue, arguing communities can no longer be left to fight logging and clearing “one forest at a time”.
Crossbench MPs and environmental groups have warned Australian taxpayers could be left exposed to billions of dollars in offshore oil and gas decommissioning costs unless Australia’s petroleum laws are urgently reformed.
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A new submission to the Treasury on the regulation of accounting, auditing, and consulting firms in Australia has recommended separating the auditing and consulting arms of accounting firms, while regulating both in line with corporations in order to guard against future misconduct.
A bitter battle over fracking is brewing in South Australia, with a consortium of community groups and councils imploring Premier Peter Malinauskas to abandon plans to lift a decade-long ban in the state’s South East two years early.
A broad coalition of industry groups, unions, NGOs and statutory bodies have published an open letter calling on the NSW Government to regulate the labour hire firms that employ large numbers of working holiday makers and PALM visa holders. The letter has been published amid a hotly contested debate over Australia’s national migration levels.
Online gambling companies are hitting the jackpot in Australia, with research showing five of the biggest operators raked in $5.4 billion in a single year while paying just $107 million in company income tax.
A Senate inquiry’s decision to back the Albanese government’s proposed NDIS overhaul has sparked outrage, with one participant warning the government and committee would have blood on their hands over deaths resulting from the changes. Despite hearing repeated warnings from experts and harrowing evidence from participants and their families, the committee tasked with scrutinising the controversial reforms recommended the bill be passed.
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70 of Australia’s leading scientists have signed an open letter calling on the Australian Government to implement a 25 per cent tax on gas exports. The tax, suggested by the Australian Council of Trade Unions, could raise $17 billion annually, money scientists argue would help make Australia a scientific powerhouse again.
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