Monthly Archives: August 2014

29 Aug

Is coal under threat of a Chinese green movement?

Queensland Resources Council chief executive Michael Roche has rejected leading economist Ross Garnaut’s claims that China will cut its reliance on coal-fired power in coming decades. Garnaut, a professorial research fellow in economics at the University of Melbourne, published a paper this week suggesting that in response to climate change, China will resort to alternate

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29 Aug

WA blames iron ore price for rating downgrade

Nahan said the Moody’s decision to downgrade the state’s rating from AAA to AA+ was disappointing, and called on the federal government to re-examine its GST distribution policy to be more fair on WA following the decline of the iron ore price over the last 12 months. “The GST system is broken, the state is

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