Mining
Lynas faces uncertainty in Malaysia

Lynas secured a 10-year licence extension in Malaysia, but strict conditions, political pressure ...  
Billions in profits, silence on tax: Adani’s Australian enigma

An advertising blitz claims mining taxes help pay for our essential services but it appears we ...  
Critical minerals, critical failures: Victoria sacrificing farms, water and public money

Victoria’s rush for critical minerals is leaving poisoned land, gutted regulators and taxpayers ...  
Sussan Ley says Coalition has always been committed to Net Zero renewables

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has laid to rest growing concerns that her party has abandoned the ...  
Pollution issues and controversy over rare earth company Lynas

With the intensifying rivalry between China and the U.S., more and more countries are keeping an ...  
FLASHBACK 2022: Adani's promise of jobs doesn't add up

Three years later, Adani's promise to Australia still isn't adding up — just as we said in 2 ...  
Barnaby’s lunatic crusade of Net Zero relevance

Barnaby’s delusional huffing and puffing over Net Zero is once again front and centre, starting ...  
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EDITORIAL: Barnaby’s lunatic crusade of Net Zero relevance

Never has it been clearer that the lunatics have taken over the Coalition HQ asylum.  
DISCLAIMER: Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting makes deal with IA

In the interests of full disclosure, the administration of Independent Australia feels obliged to ...  
Dutton's nuclear revival smells rotten to Gens Y and Z

Forty years on from the first Palm Sunday anti-nuclear marches, Peter Dutton’s attempt to ...  
Fool's gold: China beguiles the South Pacific

China is pushing into deep-sea mining of minerals in the Pacific region, but its endgame may be ...  
Clive Palmer emulates Musk to get Dutton elected

Nutjob candidates, cooker alliances and crocodile tears notwithstanding, Palmer's endgame isn ...  
Trump's plans imitate Stark environmental prophesy

Trump presidency mirrors stark fictional prophesy of irrevocable environmental damage caused by ...  
Crisafulli under pressure on which way to steer Queensland

Numbers in the Queensland Election were a “normal” change of government and the Premier will ...  
POEM: The Holy Creed of Carbonus Rex

This poem is an *IA Writing Competition (creative work category) entry.  
Mining industry launches brazen attack on Government

The mining industry launched a war of words on the Federal Government, an absurd move considering ...  
Barnaby Joyce — nuclear energy not as cheap as he thinks it is

Barnaby Joyce jumps on the nuclear energy bandwagon but gets his facts wrong.  
Gina Rinehart drills, digs and destroys

It appears Gina Rinehart has a PR problem.  
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