New data shows mining remains one of Australia’s most unequal industries – but the gender gap isn’t just about pay.
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The federal government has done a deal - underwritten by the taxpayer - to keep Australia’s largest aluminum smelter open. What’s the exit strategy if it doesn’t go to plan?
It’s one thing to abandon the dogmas of neoliberalism. It’s quite another to develop a coherent alternative.
Workers in the Pilbara generate a significant portion of Australia’s mining wealth, but often face insecure work, mental distress and sexual harassment.
The world economy, and Australians, will be affected by Trump’s latest round of tariffs.
Trump’s tariffs on China could further slow the economy of Australia’s largest trading partner.
The Juukan 2 rockshelter was blown up in 2020. The results of an archaeological dig carried out six years earlier are only now being published for the first time.
Australia’s road to net zero must pass through Indigenous-held land, which is likely to host many clean energy projects. First Nations people want partnerships that help them protect their Country.
In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda Dunn discuss the WA government scrapping a controversial law, the government's policy on Palestine, and the fallout from the Lehrmann case inquiry.
WA Premier Roger Cook has apologised to the state for getting the rollout “wrong”, while rejecting suggestions he was under pressure from the federal government to drop it to remove a referendum impediment
Should the capsule not be found immediately, we can’t just write it off as lost. A long term system of monitoring is needed to protect humans and the environment.
Our prospects of a better, fairer future are inextricably linked with the minerals and metals beneath our feet. Is it time to make peace with the industry that extracts them?
If mining workplaces are anything to go by, the clean energy sector will have their work cut out for them to retain women in the workforce.
The A Way Forward report addresses the issues of cultural heritage protection in Australia after Rio Tinto destroyed Juukan Gorge. However, achieving change will be far from straightforward.
Local communities near lithium deposits shouldn’t become zones of sacrifice, shouldering the socio-environmental costs of supporting a renewable energy transition.
For Indigenous people, Country is more than a landscape. But climate change, and the natural disasters it produces, present a clear and present threat to Country, culture and heritage.
The development strategy based on foreign investment in natural resources projects has not delivered economic growth or security. What’s needed is an inclusive vision based on local realities.
Businesses have long been a big part of the climate problem. They shouldn’t scale back environmental initiatives when it all feels too hard.
The destruction of one ancient rock shelter is devastating. But there’s a greater loss to cultural heritage that is occurring from the ‘cumulative impacts’ of mining operations in WA.
Rio Tinto’s own staff wanted the blast stopped.
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Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Research Manager, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, UNSW
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, University of Sydney
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Visiting Scientist, Humboldt University of Berlin
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Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor Environmental Science, University of Newcastle
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney