Copper is shaping up as a star for the mining giant,as it edges closer to making a final call on its nickel business in West Australia.
Victorian Labor’s big election promise has had a shaky start,but it now says it will start investing in projects the market is still unsure about.
WA’s known for mining natural resources,not so much making things with them. But a new announcement will mean major changes for the state’s product offering.
Pumped hydro projects are at risk of missing out on contracts under the federal government’s green energy financing scheme,despite warnings they are critically needed.
There are now 3.8 million households with solar. It’s time to push storage solutions,so households - and the grid - get the benefits by night as well as day.
A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.
As major infrastructure project costs rise and deadlines extend across the country,a state election also approaches – and can help explain some of the bluster.
The volume of solar waste in Victoria is expected to nearly double by 2030,prompting calls to boost the nation’s limited recycling sectors.
There are political and economic risks in pumping public money into new tech,but the payoffs are potentially vast for new and old industries alike.
Modern-day abolitionist Grace Forrest is now at the same level as Nelson Mandela,Malala Yousafzai,Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Her cause is to curb forced and child labour while there’s time.
While companies welcomed the budget boost promised to keep green tech in Australia,economist Saul Eslake says it will weaken the economy.