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How we can fight China rare metal monopoly: mining boss

How we can fight China rare metal monopoly: mining boss

A retiring chief executive has recounted how Lynas Rare Earths endured early challenges to help break China's monopoly on processing the crucial materials.

'A joke': Fortescue founder takes on diesel tax credit

'A joke': Fortescue founder takes on diesel tax credit

'A joke': Fortescue founder takes on diesel tax credit

'A joke': Fortescue founder takes on diesel tax credit

A campaign to wind back the diesel tax credit for big mining giants has been given fresh legs by Andrew Forrest, chair and founder of iron ore giant Fortescue.

Decades-long debate over river flows on amid new plan

Decades-long debate over river flows on amid new plan

Decades-long debate over river flows on amid new plan

Decades-long debate over river flows on amid new plan

A pristine river home to endangered fish is at the centre of renewed debate about water use, as environment groups call to protect a vast tropical savanna.

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Green advocates urge reset on food security goals

Green advocates urge reset on food security goals

Australia's future food security priorities need to be redefined when a third of the country is going hungry, a conservation group says.

Aussie firm losing bid to mine rare earths in Greenland

Aussie firm losing bid to mine rare earths in Greenland

Hopes have dimmed further for an Australian company’s stalled rare-earth project in Greenland, with authorities set to reject an exploration licence extension.

Experts pour water on 'speculative' oil field proposal

Experts pour water on 'speculative' oil field proposal

An energy expert is pointing to logistical and political hurdles to oil drilling in Australia as climate campaigners pour cold water on a proposal.

State seeks oil-drilling project in 'national interest'

State seeks oil-drilling project in 'national interest'

A state premier is urging the federal government to fast-track approval to drill for oil in response to the fuel crisis, bypassing environment protection laws.

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'Stealth' land claim law parked after Indigenous uproar

'Stealth' land claim law parked after Indigenous uproar

'Stealth' land claim law parked after Indigenous uproar

'Stealth' land claim law parked after Indigenous uproar

Labor has shelved changes to crown land aimed at protecting fire stations and marinas from Aboriginal claims after being accused of "scaremongering".

How war in Iran helps an Aussie farming breakthrough

How war in Iran helps an Aussie farming breakthrough

How war in Iran helps an Aussie farming breakthrough

How war in Iran helps an Aussie farming breakthrough

The conflict in Iran has sent shock waves through global energy markets and Australia's food and farming sector is more exposed than most realise.

Green groups slam ministerial exemption for Alcoa mine

Green groups slam ministerial exemption for Alcoa mine

Green groups slam ministerial exemption for Alcoa mine

Green groups slam ministerial exemption for Alcoa mine

Conservationists are outraged that a minister has used national interest provisions to continue strip-mining a forest ecosystem.

How mirroring nature might just save the humble oyster

How mirroring nature might just save the humble oyster

How mirroring nature might just save the humble oyster

How mirroring nature might just save the humble oyster

Oyster reefs are already a restoration priority and Australian research could boost survival rates of the water-filtering, habitat-providing species.

Push to outlaw spliced Russian 'blood oil' in Australia

Push to outlaw spliced Russian 'blood oil' in Australia

Push to outlaw spliced Russian 'blood oil' in Australia

Push to outlaw spliced Russian 'blood oil' in Australia

Loopholes in Australia's sanctions regime against Russia are inadvertently propping up Russia's war in Ukraine as profits from spliced oil flow back to Moscow.

Native title holders take water dispute to High Court

Native title holders take water dispute to High Court

Native title holders take water dispute to High Court

Native title holders take water dispute to High Court

A huge water allocation to allow a horticulture company to grow fruit and vegetables in the desert is being challenged in the High Court by Traditional Owners.

Australia unveils stockpile plan for critical minerals

Australia unveils stockpile plan for critical minerals

Australia unveils stockpile plan for critical minerals

Australia unveils stockpile plan for critical minerals

A $1.2 billion investment in critical minerals will be spruiked by Australia when finance ministers from major economies convene in the US capital.

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Mining giant ends bitter legal fight with former staff

A high-profile stoush between Andrew Forrest's Fortescue and former employees has come to an end after the miner accused them of intellectual property theft.

Forests, finance, fossils: climate talks hit full steam

The main event of the two-week United Nations COP30 summit comes at a pivotal time for global action on climate change.

'We can't accept this': no time for climate COP out

Global climate talks are taking place in the Amazon - the "lungs of the world" - as political headwinds threaten to blow multinational collaboration off course.

'We need energy': leader touts gas to save smelter jobs

The fate of 1000 workers hangs in the balance as leaders debate the best way to save Australia's biggest aluminium smelter from closure.

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Largest smelter could close in 'national interest' blow

Rising energy costs could force Australia's largest aluminium smelter to shut, but leaders have promised to do everything possible to keep it going.

Coal 'crisis': hundreds of jobs cut, mine mothballed

A mining giant has been labelled "un-Australian" by a state government for cutting hundreds of jobs and mothballing one of its oldest sites.

Step off the gas, Aussie green iron producers warned

Australia could squander the opportunity to export green iron to the world if it does not pursue renewable hydrogen for its production, analysts say.

Nature delivers $510b bounty but needs more resources

Australia's environment is delivering much more than the government invests in it and contributes 20 per cent of the nation's economic output, a report finds.

Australia risks losing green iron race after head start

Australia may be left stranded on the blocks in the race to lead the globe in green iron projects, with its main rivals coming from some unexpected nations.

US backs Aust-led copper project despite tribe concerns

BHP and Rio Tinto want to mine one of the largest copper deposits in North America, if they can get a hoped-for transfer of federal forest land in Arizona.

PM urges work on green steel over red wine in China

Aussie-grown beef and Penfolds wine will be on the menu as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses Chinese and Australian captains of industry in Shanghai.

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