11+ hour, 14+ min ago   (544+ words) Queensland’s royalty regime has made new investments in the state unfeasible, the boss of the world’s biggest mining company says. BHP on Tuesday disclosed it had paid $1.8 billion in state royalties on its five coking coalmines in central Queensland, a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1168+ words) A Singapore-based company that is owned by one of Indonesia’s richest families can be revealed by InDaily as a key Whyalla Steelworks bidding partner alongside Australian billionaire Matt Latimore. As the steelworks’ blast furnace enters its fifth month of being…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (583+ words) Australia must act urgently to build a domestic green steel industry or risk losing its $120 billion iron ore export market, a report has found. Climate Energy Finance issued the warning on Thursday in a 69-page report into the sector that…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (378+ words) A worker is dead and another has been seriously injured after a truck collided with a vehicle at a remote mine. Emergency crews arrived at the Peak Downs coal site, operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance, in central Queensland near…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (659+ words) An open letter to Queensland Museum has slammed the organisation’s decision to pen a $10 million deal with oil and gas giant Shell. Signatories include authors Tim Winton and Natalie Kyriacou, Professors Lesley Hughes and Ian Lowe, former fire chief Greg…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (635+ words) Fortescue has been hit with a class action law suit that accuses it of facilitating a shocking culture at its remote worksites where women paid the price. Women have alleged sexual harassment, violence and retaliation for speaking out at Fortescue…...

3+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (970+ words) It’s official. French film icon Isabelle Huppert is the toast of Cannes with two lauded films, The Richest Woman in the World and new premiere Parallel Tales. Isabelle Huppert is queen of Cannes — again. After premiering her leading role last…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (484+ words) The Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie has prevented any future plans for a quarry in Reedy Creek by removing a key planning overlay that had been implemented by Labour. In 2007, the then Labour Government designated the region as a Key Resource…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (432+ words) Another struggling metals smelter will receive a $2 billion bailout from federal and state governments in a bid to shore up manufacturing jobs. Australia’s second-largest aluminium smelter – Rio Tinto’s Boyne aluminium smelter in the central Queensland town of Gladstone – will be…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (576+ words) Yesterday, the state government announced approval of 18 new prospective oil, gas, coal and vanadium exploration areas across the state. Competitive tender processes are now open for 12 petroleum and gas areas totalling more than 7000km² – twice the size of Townsville – in the…...