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Environmental lawfare, unproductive workplace policies and red tape are threatening a predicted $131bn wave of resources and ­energy projects, employers have warned, as mining unions demand yearly $10,000 retention bonuses for BHP’s Pilbara workforce on top of annual 5 per cent pay rises.

At the last election, just one in eight Australians voted for the Greens.

While their 12.5 per cent was a high point, it is worth highlighting that 87.5 per cent of Australians did not support the radical left party.

Labor’s contentious environmental and workplace reforms are jeopardising a projected pipeline of more than 100 mining and energy projects worth $131 billion, warns Australian Resources and Energy ­Employer Association boss Steve Knott.

It is hard to fathom that what is now the Zone Tax Offset (ZTO), originally established in 1945, has barely evolved in more than 70 years.

Billions of dollars in gas royalties funnelled into Queensland government coffers would dry up in a decade under a Greens and Teal proposal to ban new development, new modelling for the sector reveals.

The Albanese Government is under fire from major businesses in the State for launching an assault on the resources sector on two fronts – flirting with the Greens who want a debilitating “climate trigger” as part of new environment laws, and emboldening unions in the Pilbara to take on BHP and demand massive bonuses for workers.

Is this the beginning of the return to the bad old days when cowboy unions held our country’s economy to ransom?

By slashing the power and influence of environmental groups to challenge mining proposals if he wins government, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has anointed himself the resource sector’s best friend.

Peter Dutton wants to fast-track more than 420 mining and energy projects if the Coalition wins government. Resources Minister Madeleine King will tell miners there is no time to lose to meet demand for materials for weapons and renewables.

A shock new poll has revealed Labor and the Coalition are neck and neck for the first time in two years – with one Coalition leader making a bold call.

As the sun sets over Canberra on Monday evening, a crowd of high-profile mining executives, industry lobbyists and Federal MPs will start filing into Parliament House’s Great Hall.

Uproar over reckless attack on resources.