Mining
Once healthy creeks in the Sydney catchment have become dead zones. Now scientists know why
New research provides scientific evidence that longwall mining is draining endangered upland swamps, eroding water quality and creating fire risk.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Federal police drop foreign bribery investigation into Australian miner
Sundance Resources was accused of bribing government officials in the Republic of Congo to progress an iron ore venture that was set to be one of the biggest projects in Africa.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Emmanuel Freudenthal
Radioactive dust-up over mine in Victoria’s food bowl
They are critical minerals needed for renewable technologies, but a plan to dig them up where the food we eat is grown has been met with fierce resistance from farmers.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Who’s buying our dirty, polluting coal mines?
Acquisitive billionaires are sniffing big profits in Australia’s coal sector, and they’re willing to go where other investors fear to tread.
- by Simon Johanson
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Company tax
Do big miners pay their fair share?
Described as “the gift that keeps on giving”, Australia’s mineral wealth has made mine owners into multibillionaires. But at a time when we pay to import our own gas, are the spoils being shared fairly?
- by Angus Holland
Dutton brings back Abbott’s ‘carbon tax’ attack
The opposition leader has revived Abbott’s ‘carbon tax’ line as he backs big miners in their feud with Albanese.
- by Paul Sakkal
In the shadow of a mining giant, children crawl in poison
Blood lead levels in children under five are on the rise again despite decades of remediation efforts in a town built on one of Australia’s richest mines.
- by Angus Thomson and Rhett Wyman
Editorial
Healthcare
In Broken Hill as in Sydney, the answer is housing
Poor quality housing is one of several factors contributing to a looming health crisis in the state’s far west.
- The Herald's View
Analysis
Tanya Plibersek
Lies, damned lies and gold mines: What you need to know about the Blayney bunfight
The McPhillamys mine proposed by Regis Resources has become a political football since Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek decided to block a key part of the project on Indigenous heritage grounds.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Lithium boss slams ‘lazy’ global carmakers, but says EV boom is coming
One of Australia’s top lithium producers says no one is making money from mining the key battery ingredient at current prices as electric car sales languish.
- by Nick Toscano
‘Nonsense’ or ‘rigorous’: Premier and Plibersek in blow-up over $1 billion gold mine
Minns has doubled down on his criticism of federal Labor Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek, saying he believed the decision to knock back the proposal had been made in error.
- by Max Maddison and Nick O'Malley
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