BHP better placed for growth than in years
The mining giant’s balance sheet is in fantastic shape and its growth options are much better positioned than they were just a few years ago, CEO Mike Henry says.
The mining giant’s balance sheet is in fantastic shape and its growth options are much better positioned than they were just a few years ago, CEO Mike Henry says.
Coal giant BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) has warned Australia risks returning to an era of lockouts and strikes under Labor’s controversial industrial relations reforms.
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Activist funds have backed down on their push for a vote on better climate disclosures at the BHP annual meeting, after the company’s own report satisfied their demands.
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Far more than the profitability of mining and energy companies is at stake from bad policies that adversely affect their operations and the viability of investments in new projects.
Environmental lawfare, unproductive workplace policies and red tape are threatening resources projects, employers warn, as unions demand yearly $10,000 retention bonuses for BHP’s Pilbara workforce.
Mining giant BHP has defended its role in the Australian economy, claiming the amount of tax it paid last financial year was equal to half the entire annual funding of the public hospital system.
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Australia’s second potential Olympic Dam-sized mine is under threat from a fresh Indigenous heritage claim under federal law seeking to override all state approvals.
It’s no surprise that the government has delivered a broadside to BHP. Scratch the skin of Labor and there will emerge an “anti-big business” sentiment, aligned with that of associated unions.
Gina Rinehart has warned that the Albanese government’s industrial relations and environment policies risk alienating Australia’s two largest producers, Rio Tinto and BHP, and could drive the mining giants offshore.
Minerals Council of Australia boss Tania Constable said an IR ruling threatened to set a precedent which could be applied across the Pilbara’s powerhouse iron ore operations.
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart says more federal red tape will scare off the nation’s biggest companies, calls for the ‘elimination’ of taxes.
Resources Minister Madeleine King has gone to war with BHP in an extraordinary spray, attacking the mining giant for always ‘railing against’ Labor policies and refusing to work productively with unions.
BHP and its multi-billion profits are still all based on China. Today it’s iron ore tomorrow it will be copper.
The Australian share market finished down on Tuesday, following sagging results from jeweller Lovisa and sluggish performance from Zip and Johns Lyng.
What do you get when you mix new IR laws, unions muscling their way into the mines and anti-mining sentiment from Tanya Plibersek? Nothing good.
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BHP has announced a copper ore resource of more than one billion tonnes at Oak Dam in outback SA, and wants to more than double output in the state over the next 10 years.
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