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Macken Sense: Media Madness
Amid all the sound and fury generated by Gina Rinehart’s assault on the Fairfax board, the slashing of over 1,900 jobs from The Age, the SM and the AFR and the threat of hundreds if not thousands of jobs being lost at News Limited, it was easy to miss this announcement last week. For those…
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Macken sense: It’s time for Martin
If the Prime Minister is fair dinkum about creating a clean economy future and developing a diverse and robust economy that will carry us through the gloom following the boom she needs to move the Minister for Resources, Energy & Tourism, Martin Ferguson, out of his portfolio and separate the Energy and Tourism portfolios. Of…
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Trouble in the Kimberley underscores risk for institutional investors
Press release – 15 May, 2012Sydney 14th May 2012 As tensions escalate around James Price Point, the proposed site of the Woodside gas hub in the Kimberley, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is calling on the industry super funds to reconsider their exposure to such a high risk project through their investment in the joint venture partners.This…
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CPRS Gets Worse As Polluters Trample Democracy
It is difficult to imagine the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) getting much worse than it already was. It is an appalling piece of legislation that, if passed, will allow the ongoing expansion of Australia’s most polluting industries whilst giving the illusion that the Government is taking action on climate change. It passed through…