Ele Ludemann: Development & environmental protection can co-exist

The government’s draft strategy for mining has resulted in the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects.

That there’s potential to unlock billions of dollars in much-needed export income matters not to those who look at the world through dark green tinted glasses.

That mining and conservation don’t have to be mutually exclusive escapes them.

Cam Slater: Shane Jones Says ‘Goodbye, Freddy’

Almost every day I am finding more and more reasons to like this Government. Shane Jones has spoken with complete sense as the Government moves to mine, drill and sell our natural resources.