Covid weighs on BHP top executive pay
The miner’s CFO says he’s concerned about risk of double taxation, with Australian corporate tax rates ‘comparatively high’.
Mining Energy
Energy players hit out at plan
The energy industry has hit back at the government’s plan for potential intervention in the power sector, saying the move may derail investment.
Energy plan: Is this Morrison’s NBN?
Scott Morrison’s fight with the energy companies has echoes of the Telstra brawl that ended up giving us the NBN.
Ultimatum on power plants
Prospective investors will have about six months to commit to the new targets or the government will step in to ensure the generation is built.
Refiners struggling despite subsidies
Australian oil refiners have warned of a tough outlook despite the Morrison government’s industry subsidy package.
Tariffs and subsidies? More fuel us
Fuel security is important, but are old-fashioned protection of a declining industry and higher petrol prices the best way to guarantee it?
Next Rio chief has work cut out
Rio Tinto needs an external chief executive who can steady the miner’s performance, analysts suggest.
Has world oil demand peaked?
Oil giant BP’s outlook suggests the pandemic could accelerate to a point where oil demand doesn’t return to pre-COVID-19 levels.
Gas prices still too high
International prices have tumbled but we aren’t seeing any benefit.
Plan to ease fuel pressure
The government is planning a subsidy to ease fears that Australia’s remaining four fuel refineries could be forced to shut down.
PM reveals energy security lifeline
Long-term fuel supplies will increase and refineries handed a lifeline under an economic blueprint to protect the industry.
Credibility gap must be addressed: HESTA
Industry super fund HESTA has warned of an emerging credibility gap in corporate Australia, with Rio Tinto among the worst offenders.
Inside Putin’s private mercenary force
Across the globe, a group of brutal Russian hired guns are giving their President a strategic foothold in resource-rich nations.
Gorge jury chief ‘held Rio shares’
The chairman of the committee that gave Rio Tinto approval to destroy the Juukan Gorge caves held shares in the mining giant.
Billionaire heirs’ iron ore bonanza
The secretive Perth trio behind Wright Prospecting got a huge payday as the price of iron ore surged during 2020.
More pressure on Rio to focus on Australia
Rio Tinto remains under sustained pressure to restructure its corporate presence towards Australia.
The revolt that led Rio Tinto to cave in
It took two weeks for Rio Tinto’s board to come to the conclusion the public had reached months ago: chief executive Jean-Sébastien Jacques must go.
Jacques was under pressure to maximise profits from iron ore
A few weeks after Jean-Sebastien Jacques took the top job at Rio Tinto he was thrown an unusual question.
Jacques out as Rio board buckles
Rio Tinto has launched an external search for a new chief executive.
Miner’s ‘crime’ just a routine event in WA
The Juukan Gorge caves were by no means the first ancient caves of the Pilbara to be lost to mining. And they won’t be the last.
Cave calamity caps CEO’s mixed legacy
It is no small irony that his reign at Rio ended with a last-ditch trip to the Pilbara to rescue his leadership of the company.
Miner’s management should come home
After 24 years of regular disasters under London control it’s time for Rio Tinto to return to Australia.
Flawed planning exposed in hunt for successor
It is a damning indictment of the Rio board that no clear successor to Jean-Sebastien Jacques is present within Rio’s ranks.
Super giant demands review of Rio deals
Superannuation heavyweight HESTA has strengthened calls for an independent review of Rio Tinto’s agreements with traditional owners.
Once again, we’re being treated with contempt
Running a public company requires three basics — Rio Tinto failed all of them.
Rio fixes one problem, reveals another
By belatedly capitulating and fixing one leadership problem, Rio Tinto’s board has exposed another, also of its own making.
Rio Tinto CEO, execs step down
Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge catastrophe has claimed the scalps of chief executive Jean Sebastien Jacques, Chris Salisbury and Simone Niven.
BHP executives face carbon test
BHP to put 10pc of its bosses’ bonus payments on the line over a plan to cut carbon emissions by 30pc by 2030.
Rio Tinto faces Future Fund fury
The Future Fund has added its muscle to the push to force Rio Tinto’s board to take stronger action over the destruction at the Juukan Gorge.
Rio ‘knew Juukan caves significant’
Rio Tinto and the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people were well aware of the historical significance of the Juukan Gorge caves.
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