The resources sector has welcomed initiatives from the Victorian government to regulate the minerals industry but has lamented the lack of support for critical minerals development and additional payroll taxes.
In its 2023-24 Budget, the Victorian government allocated A$23.3-million in new funding to the resources sector, including the establishment of an Earth Resources Approvals Coordinator which will provide strategic project facilitation to help complex mining projects navigate through the array of Acts, regulators and tiers of government and deliver much needed investments in regional Victoria.
PM shift towards net zero may be too little, too late
February 3, 2021 12.05am
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Very much like an iceberg in the Arctic, Scott Morrison is slowly melting to the idea of taking some sort of climate change action (“PM shifts towards net-zero emissions”, February 2), but it has to be targeted, incremental and won’t cost the people who vote for him any money. The trouble with this approach is by the time he does anything, we’re all cooked.
Chris Moe, Bensville
The idea to have zero emissions by almost 30 years from now is the Prime Minister playing politics. It’s a put-off. The Coalition has had the past 10 years to devise a plan and all we’ve got is obfuscation.
WA gold diviner Bob Biggs says 99 out of 100 people are sceptical of the bush art, but that s their bad luck
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Bob Biggs claims he has the ability to divine for gold, water and other minerals.
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Bob Biggs has had a nose for gold since he was a teenager when he worked underground on Western Australia s historic Gwalia mine before it closed in 1963.
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Retired pastoralist Bob Biggs describes himself as a self-taught gold diviner
The 84-year-old began divining for water almost 50 years ago after reading books on the subject
Sceptics say diviners are pretty genuine but all have failed to prove their abilities under test conditions