ECONOMICS: Coalmining
ECONOMICS
What Gina Wants: Gina Rinehart’s quest for respect and gratitude
Nick Bryant
Lang Hancock thought journalists were either “socialists” or “communists”. Gina, too, is deeply scornful of the press. Very few reporters...
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Coal’s Next Alibi: The Coal Industry’s Coal-fed Algae Plan
Guy Pearse
Imagine a supermarket called Coal’s where everything in your trolley was made with algae fed with carbon dioxide from a large industrial...
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CULTURE
Sound Harvest: David Lumsdaine’s 'White Dawn' and 'Big Meeting'
Andrew Ford
Whenever the old conversation is had about what constitutes the authentic Australian sound in classical music – and fortunately it is had...
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POLITICS
Comment: NSW Labor
Mark Aarons
Since December, the Keneally government’s political ineptitude has been underscored by its incompetent handling of the unpopular...
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ENVIRONMENT
Queensland's addiction to carbon. Guy Pearse
Guy Pearse
Part 1 | Part 2In his talk to the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute, Guy Pearse asks how much longer Queensland expects to...
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Land of the Long Black Cloud
Guy Pearse
Most of us think of Aussie coalmining as a local issue, and why not? Coal exports have doubled since 1992 and are set to do so again by...
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ECONOMICS
Resources and Australia's future. Michael Wesley
Michael Wesley
Part 1 | Part 2Modern societies are becoming ever more dependent on mineral resources but increasingly less self-sufficient in their...
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King Coal
Guy Pearse
Glenn’s castle is not his house, but the public garden and war memorial into which his parents poured so much time and effort. “Mum had...
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POLITICS
Comment: Rudd and the Murdoch Press
Mungo MacCallum
Political leaders find it particularly irksome. It was painful enough to be called into the media mogul’s Sydney headquarters, worse still...
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