30 . 06 . 2025
Chris Bowen announces gas market review
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced a new review into gas market regulations in a “comprehensive and methodical look at key measures” introduced by various governments on energy supply and prices.
30 . 06 . 2025
Nation’s largest green hydrogen project axed
Australia’s largest green hydrogen project has been terminated, with the collapse of the inter¬national consortium developing the $12.5bn plant and pipeline in Gladstone.
28 . 06 . 2025
Labor’s green dreams put out of their misery
The Queensland Budget this week revealed that the former Labor government wasted a rainy-day fund on various renewable and hydrogen pet projects.
25 . 06 . 2025
Gina Rinehart labels net zero a ‘magic pudding’ and says Australia should aspire to be like the United States
Gina Rinehart says net zero is an “unobtainable and expensive magic pudding”, and believes Australia should follow the lead of the US.
25 . 06 . 2025
Gina Rinehart labels net zero a ‘magic pudding’ and says Australia should aspire to be like the United States
Gina Rinehart says net zero is an “unobtainable and expensive magic pudding”, and believes Australia should follow the lead of the US.
24 . 06 . 2025
Rinehart lashes ‘magic pudding’ net zero
Gina Rinehart has lashed net zero as “unobtainable and expensive”, while celebrating Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto’s Hope Downs 2 $2.5 billion investment call.
24 . 06 . 2025
Resources Minister Madeleine King flags market intervention if war cuts LNG exports from Qatar, UAE
Resources Minister Madeleine King has reassured domestic gas users that they will be protected from any supply and pricing fallout in the wake of Iran’s threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
23 . 06 . 2025
Australian miners and smelters call for state aid during energy transition
Some of the country’s biggest industrial names are hit hardest as rising electricity costs and volatile commodity prices put their businesses at risk
20 . 06 . 2025
Net zero is Australia’s biggest self-imposed economic burden
When I began writing about economics at The Australian more than a decade ago, these pages were filled with optimism: the resource boom was in full swing, the phrase “miracle economy” still prevalent. If we had a problem it was a “two-speed” economy, and an Australian dollar that was almost as valuable as the greenback.
18 . 06 . 2025
Why the world cannot quit coal
Ten years after the signing of the Paris climate accord, demand for coal shows no sign of peaking
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
