Industries Articles
Libs, backed by industry, torpedoed Rudd's carbon bill
THE Rudd Government's big climate package was defeated yesterday because the estimated $16 billion or more it gives in assistance to Australia's big greenhouse-gas polluting industries is either too much or too little to help them adjust to a clean energy future.
Fishy Attraction
NEWCASTLE anglers will have a better chance to catch fish offshore this summer, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald has said.
Coal Jobs Will Power On: Mp
THE Hunter Region's coal and power industries would not be consigned to history, despite Federal Government moves to put a price on carbon, Charlton MP Greg Combet said yesterday.
Pokies And Smokes, A New Try-on
TIMES are tough, and along with makers of gas-guzzling cars and polluting industries, the pubs and clubs are joining the rush of industries crying hardship.
Accc Admits Ignoring Promise To Pratt On Evidence
THE Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's most senior executive has told a court he believed the regulator had promised Visy Industries' founder Richard Pratt that it would not exploit a document in which the billionaire box-maker admitted to illegal price-fixing.
