Nearly 400 new mines could open by 2035 to meet demand for the minerals used in global electrification. Better recycling can help with supply, but mining’s impacts will have to be better managed.
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Despite relatively stable and low levels of unemployment, workers are increasingly concerned that their jobs are at risk.
The big ticket resources projects of the past decade have not delivered as hoped for regional Queensland. New approaches are needed.
The government shouldn’t cave to WA’s calls for a change to the way GST is divvied out. The current system has served Australia well.
the end of the mining boom has breathed new life into parts of the Tasmanian economy. But there are also several worrying indicators – like population growth and unemployment – to be addressed.
Western Australia posted enviable growth numbers for a long time. But the trend is now going the wrong way, and unless something is done soon there will be difficult times ahead.
How WA managed to emerge from the mining boom with an estimated debt burden of $40 billion is one of the West’s great mysteries. Or not, if you bother to look more closely.
The mining industry is more resilient because of the recent downturn and it will be global supply and demand that will affect these companies in the future.
In the 1960s, with the phosphate boom over and Nauru’s economy in ruins, Australia offered to move the entire nation to Queensland’s Curtis Island. But with no sovereignty on offer, the deal collapsed.
Since the 1960s, environmentalism in Australia has largely focused on defending “wilderness”. However, protected areas in themselves are not stemming the destruction of biodiversity.
Nauruans used to be some of the richest people in the world, before their mining industry imploded. Now, as the island aims to develop sustainably, there are signs of the green shoots of recovery.
Rehabilitating old mines is a crucial responsibility for the industry. But many Australian mine sites have been simply left alone or left for the taxpayer to fix.
We hear a lot about how essential coal and other mineral exports are for Australia. Is it true? Only for a relatively small section of the population.
In the first Politics Podcast for 2016, Michelle Grattan and Tony Burke discuss the challenging gap between government revenue and spending.
Australia’s economic complexity is declining and it’s not a good thing.
Australia’s emerging agriculture boom can last much longer than the mining boom – but the industry needs policies that will encourage investment.
Mining, along with agriculture, will continue to be key parts of the Australian economy – but new growth is expected in the services sector.
Now is not the time for complacency. Australia must be on the front foot if it wants to make the most of what economists are calling the “new normal.”
The mining boom is over and the industry is employing fewer workers – but the outlook for mining in Australia seems generally good.
In comedy timing is everything. So, too, in politics. In good times governing is – or ought to be – pretty straightforward. How hard can it be to divide up the windfall gains from a mining boom, for example…
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Director, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) and John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Center for Mined Land Rehabilitation, The University of Queensland
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