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Brookfield challenger CBH becomes ACCC target
If the hard nuts at Brookfield Infrastructure Partners were ever going to be inspired to a chuckle by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission then Tuesday was the day.
Matthew Stevens writes on Business specialising in Mining, Energy, Opinion. Matthew is a senior business writer and columnist.
If the hard nuts at Brookfield Infrastructure Partners were ever going to be inspired to a chuckle by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission then Tuesday was the day.
The bands between which iron ore and coal prices are starting to become much clearer.
The iron ore miners' public standing is no where near as parlous as WA's political classes, among others, might imagine.
Rio Tinto and BHP are preaching to the converted on the WA Nationals tax plan. They need to start winning the hearts of minds of the state's voters.
Australian coal mine operators were supposed to have eradicated Black Lung 30 years ago. Turns out that was just wishful thinking.
BHP Billiton has signalled both the geography and modus operandi of its quest for new copper horizons through a rejected $US305 million play...
Oil giant BP has copped a big serve from the SA Treasurer after abandoning its controversial oil exploration drilling program off the coast ...
Australian governments risk erosion of their social licence to privatise state-owned assets if they continue to focus on price maximisation ...
Scabby the Rat is about to make his debut in the strike-torn Queensland coal mining village of Middlemount.
Should the ACCC be a market maker rather than just a defender of the competitive status quo?
It took a mere 43 seconds for a perfect storm to turn South Australia's power off on Wednesday, September 28.
Colin Barnett has only fuelled the corrosion of WA's sovereign integrity with a profoundly odd invite to Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.
Mongolia's request for financial rescue has done nothing to alter the debt-burdened mining frontier's standing on the Rio Tinto rankings of ...
HL Kam is the managing director of Cheung✓ Kong Infrastructure and Li Ka-shing's brother-in-law.
The pent-up exuberance released across global energy and equities markets by OPEC's Algiers accord is almost as surprising as the announceme...
If you thought the embattled Samarco would take the high ground after the dam disaster you'd be wrong.
An important court victory for Gina Rinehart's ambitions Queensland mining will resound across Australia's coal nation.
Could Portland smelter follow the Hazelwood power station into retirement as Victoria moves to a carbon light future?
Australian gas customers could pay up to 25 per cent less to transport gas if pipelines were regulated
Even with the Samarco dam disaster and a $US6.3b loss there is an argument that the BHP CEO deserves his bonus pay.
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