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Mining profits have taken a $4.6bn hit amid a decline in coal and iron ore exports, driving an unexpected drop in economy-wide earnings and threatening to push the federal budget deeper into deficit.

Anthony Albanese’s left-faction lieutenants have met with Tasmanian community and industry leaders concerned that Tanya Plibersek could shut down the state’s $1.36bn salmon industry, as ALP figures say the Environment Minister is ready to “play the long game” in her political rivalry with the Prime Minister.

A record number of people are struggling to pay their energy bills, the Australian Energy Regulator has said in a report that highlights the toll of Australia’s cost of living crisis that is sapping support for the federal Labor government.

On the 22nd November, people travelled from all over Australia, to come together in outback Australia to celebrate National Mining and Related Industries Day. The gala event was held at Santos’s Moomba gas field in South Australia.

Imagine a foreign organisation was secretly funding a sophisticated campaign to damage Australia’s economy, divert billions of dollars of investment away from our country, destroy tens of thousands of our blue-collar jobs and bring Australia’s leading position in economic exports to an end.

Policy debates don’t change gradually. They change suddenly. There has been a sudden change in Australia in public attitudes to energy policy. Anyone who has studied Australia’s energy production and consumption has realised that, if we continue on our current path of eliminating all fossil fuels and rejecting the option of nuclear power, we will be on a road to ruin.

Businesses that produce groceries are being smashed by soaring gas bills that are making it harder and harder to stay afloat.

Blackouts loom unless renewables firmed. Households face being plunged into darkness – while paying even more for power – without action on Australia’s gas shortage.

Sky News Australia reveals the true cost of the race to renewable energy in an exclusive investigation by political contributor Chris Uhlmann.

There was “no person” on Tanya Plibersek’s staff who could tell if the Blayney goldmine could recover from her heritage decision, department documents show, despite later assurances there was “no impediment” to it.

Article by Charlie Lewis, courtesy of Crikey. Ah would that it were National Mining Day every day. Where else could we get the peerless insights of mining magnate Gina Rinehart (except, oh

Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to scuttle a deal with the Greens on a signature plank of his environmental platform after appeals from WA Premier Roger Cook, again overriding his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek just months out from the federal election.