Yesterday
Rio Tinto faces $400m bill amid Pilbara native title water squeeze
The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation has asked officials to limit groundwater extraction, forcing big miners and gas developers to scramble for more supply.
- Peter Ker
This Month
Jamie Oliver’s editors should have seen this scandal coming
British publishers are scratching their heads as to how Penguin Random House UK could have left the celebrity chef’s kids’ book exposed to an A-grade furore.
- Hans van Leeuwen
October
Optus ‘exploited’ vulnerable people, ACCC alleges
The telco group sold phone plans to people who could not use them at home because there was no Optus coverage where they lived, the competition watchdog claims.
- Jenny Wiggins
EDO expert on Indigenous culture says he’s ‘just a white fella’
The Federal Court ultimately rejected the arguments made by the Environmental Defenders Office and allowed Santos to develop the $5.8 billion gas project.
- Max Mason
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
White demographics did not drive the Voice vote
It wasn’t old, white voters who made the Voice referendum fail. The Yes campaign aimed at elites, and took the rest of Australia for granted.
- Nyunggai Warren Mundine
Raw wounds and toxic politics: One year on from the Voice
After last year’s push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution ended in defeat, the groups remain deeply divided.
- Tom McIlroy
AI greenhouses feed remote communities and educate children
Food Ladder installs AI greenhouses in remote communities to feed people and educate their children about the benefits of healthy fresh produce.
- Christopher Niesche
- Exclusive
- Iron ore
Gina Rinehart slashes plans for next big mine as ESG factors hit
The billionaire businesswoman has dramatically scaled back the proposed Mulga Downs iron ore project by 40 per cent to overcome environmental concerns.
- Peter Ker
Voice architect says Labor should have delayed referendum
Megan Davis, who helped draft the landmark 2017 Uluru Statement, says Indigenous Australians lost out to misinformation and lies.
- Tom McIlroy
Business elite reaps the rewards of stolen wages cases
There’s a certain irony, and sadness, that it takes a rapacious firm looking to “maximise returns” for its wealthy backers to get governments to empty their pockets.
- Max Mason
August
ILSC’s Ayers Rock Resort sale expands to the Daintree
The Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation has launched a formal sale process for the operational assets of its subsidiary Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Pain of ASX CHESS mess will be borne by investors
Readers’ letter on the ASX’s bungled settlement system changes; big tech paying for media; closing the gap; Paul Keating’s super tax criticism; and Senate committee talkfests.
Native title stoush stands in the way of BHP’s SA copper dream
SA Supreme Court will next week hear a battle for control of the native title group that holds the key to BHP’s dream of expanding its Australian copper mines.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Gold
Plibersek’s mine block alarms whole industry
Regis Resources is cancelling its proposed gold project in NSW after the federal environment minister vetoed its site for a tailings dam.
- Jennifer Hewett
Jabiluka uranium owner warns of Christmas cash crunch
ERA has fully impaired the controversial Jabiluka deposit and will need to raise billions of dollars to complete rehabilitation of uranium mines near Kakadu.
- Peter Ker
Gold miner says $1b project ‘unviable’ after Plibersek intervention
Regis Resources may challenge Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to protect Indigenous heritage over the $1 billion McPhillamys project in NSW.
- Peter Ker
Mining lobby says Plibersek intervention imperils $1b gold project
The federal environment minister late on Friday placed heritage protection orders over the headwaters of the Belubula River, near Regis’ McPhillamys development.
- Peter Ker
Voice architect fears Indigenous policy ‘deja vu’ trap
Uluru Dialogue co-chairwoman Pat Anderson warned Labor not to throw its promise of a Makarrata commission “out with the referendum bathwater”.
- Tom McIlroy
PM’s Indigenous economic plan ‘not enough’
Businessman and Voice advocate Sean Gordon says many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are not well placed to benefit from renewables development.
- Tom McIlroy
PM promises major Indigenous economic plan
Anthony Albanese will attend the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday, saying his determination to close the disadvantage gap has not wavered.
- Tom McIlroy