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There are no excuses for gas shortfalls in Australia and authorities must press ahead with unlocking the abundant reserves, a senior executive at Santos has declared.

Drilling has kicked off at Senex Energy’s $1 billion expansion project in Queensland’s Surat Basin.

WA Defence Industry Minister Paul Papalia has endorsed the thinking behind Gina Rinehart’s Pilbara ‘iron dome’ concept, as the state pushes for protection of its economic heartland.

Australia’s richest person hits out at inefficient approvals system as Federal Government finally approves $600m project.

Corporate Australia is finally waking up to the threat Labor poses to the business sector, as the Albanese government, filled with radical ideologues, finds new and creative ways to thwart development.

Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has once again ripped into government bureaucracy as endangering the living standards of Australians, despite the approval of her newest iron ore mine.

It’s disappointing to read how inadequately The Australian Financial Review has treated the critical issue of developing northern Australia.

Business Council of Australia (BCA) chief ­executive Bran Black is set to tell Mr Albanese in a speech on Tuesday night that leaders of many major companies ‘feel we are losing our way’ economically under Labor.

Two years ago, still wearing a honeymoon glow, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese followed his address to the Business Council of Australia’s annual dinner by offering a few lucky CEOs a ride on his private plane Toto One to Canberra for the government’s jobs and skills summit.

Times have changed now – a politically battered Albo is stumbling toward an election, big business is a lot crankier with federal Labor, and the BCA is facing questions about whether its influence has become too anaemic.

Industrial relations is shaping as a major electoral battlefield with the nation’s peak business lobby warning that Australia is taking “steps backward” under Labor’s new workplace rules and growing red tape.

Labor and the Coalition are consigning younger generations to a future of higher taxes, ballooning government debt and poorer living standards, Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black will warn.

Chief executives of the nation’s biggest companies are warning Australia is “losing our way” and taking “steps backwards” under Labor, with the Business Council of Australia taking a shot at Anthony Albanese for accusing disgruntled employers of “talking Australia down”.