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Older workers to be encouraged back into the workforce

One of the key messages from Treasury's Intergenerational Report, released yesterday, is that Australia will have a dwindling pool of workers over the next 40 years as the population's average age increases. The Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he wants to get older people working if they want to. But older workers ...

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Family-friendly fun in City of Light this summer

The City of Perth will be the place to be this New Year's Eve and Australia Day 2024 thanks to a partnership with Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill. Having played a significant role in the 2023 City of Lights series, Hancock Prospecting and Roy Hill has stepped up again thanks to the ...

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Ageing population sparks calls to cut senior workforce tax barriers

With the Australian population set to age, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) says the government needs to “remove unfair tax and red tape barriers stopping Australian pensioners, veterans, and students who want to work.” Research Fellow at the IPA Saxon Davidson told Oliver Peterson on Perth Live that Australia ...

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Let Pensioners Work

“Age-old problem needs future-proofing” is missing an important component in the worker shortage debate, the harsh treatment by the Federal Government of aged Australians and other pensioners who would otherwise like to continue working.Let’s look after our own better and remove the incomes test. Allow those pensioners who ...

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LISTEN TO THE BUSH LEADERS

I listened intently to them as well as to Gina Rinehart who gave her views on what governments need to do to ensure we continue to enjoy the lifestyle we have grown accustomed to. My personal view is our governments need to listen to the Rinehart has to say. We ...

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Hear from the Perth council about its high tech rubbish trucks

Rubbish trucks are full of blind spots that can often lead to fatal crashes. For the first time in Perth they've been fitted out with technology that could save lives.

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‘This is a very big issue’: Mining magnate Gina Rinehart takes aim at net zero policy, calls for more practical policies

Gina Rinehart has offered a scathing assessment of the costs involved with achieving net zero at a regional summit, warning of the dire consequences for the agriculture industry. Ms Rinehart took aim at the handouts for “climate research and government advisers”, highlighting the angst she sees in the agriculture industry. “...

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STOP BEATING AROUND THE BUSH ON REGIONS

While business leaders and policymakers were converging in Perth on Monday for The Australian’s inaugural Bush Summit, more than 2000km away, in the state’s remote Kimberley region, pastoralist Chris Towne and a group of workers were battling to contain a massive fire sweeping across the plains of Gogo ...

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The Courier-Mail Bush Summit 2023: Keynote with Mrs Gina Rinehart AO

Keynote speech with Gina Rinehart, Executive Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Group.

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RINEHART ALARM ON NET ZERO TARGETS

Hancock Prospecting executive chair Gina Rinehart says the costs to agriculture of achieving net-zero targets has the potential to increase food prices at the supermarket and force farming families off their land. Ms Rinehart, in her keynote speech at The Courier-Mail Bush Summit, also sounded the alarm on red tape ...

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We honour their sacrifice and service

50th Anniversary of the end of Australia's participation in the Vietnam war.

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Gina Rinehart’s bold vision for Australia’s future as she warns the country could face food shortages if nothing is done

She sent her strongest message about the expensive bill farmers were facing to meet zero emission CO2 targets. Her Hancock Agriculture business runs 14 farm properties in Western Australia with 12,000 head of Wagyu beef cattle, one of the largest herds in the country. 'Agriculture usually doesn't have the financial resources that ...

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Gina Rinehart urges Albanese government to ease burden of net zero emissions on farmers as she calls for drastic red tape cut

The executive chair of Hancock Prospecting and Hancock Agriculture Gina Rinehart used the first Bush Summit in Western Australia to urge state and federal government to massively cut red tape, return regional revenue to the bush and ease the pain of net zero policies on farmers. Ms Rinehart delivered the ...

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Iron ore price falls on worries of steel output cut in China

Iron ore prices fell on Monday as expectations of steel output cuts in China and weakness in the country’s property segment weighed on sentiment. The most-traded January iron ore on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange dipped 0.4% to 725 yuan ($99.88) per metric ton.“[Citi’s] industry discussions suggest that crude steel ...

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Farmers can’t afford net zero, says Rinehart

“It’s going to cost a fortune that farmers and pastoralists don’t have, without a mining company in their back pocket. They just don’t Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, says farmers and the agriculture sector cannot afford the transition to net zero and governments should step in ...

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Roy Hill sets up chatbot to help lift productivity

West Australian mining company Roy Hill has developed its own internal chatbot to give its employees better insights about the company’s functions and to increase their personal productivity. The program was developed after executive chairman Gina Rinehart put out a challenge 18 months ago for the leaders of WA mining ...

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Bush Summit: Wind farms facing revolt from farmers

Governments and wind farm developers could face stiff opposition from farmers amid growing concern that large-scale projects could change the landscape for the worse, former Northern Territory chief minister Adam Giles says. Mr Giles – now the chief executive of Gina Rinehart’s two key farming businesses, Hancock Agriculture and S. ...

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