Posts tagged "minerals"

Australia is getting older, the tax base is changing, but there are opportunities to boost productivity, the Intergenerational Report says.

A lot can change in six months. Just ask Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who will on Tuesday deliver a vastly different federal budget to the economic roadmap laid out by the Coalition in March.

A tech stock sell-off has narrowed the fortunes of Afterpay billionaires Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen, as other innovators gained ground.

The federal government is establishing a loan facility to help Australia’s critical minerals sector tap into what Scott Morrison says is one of the world’s largest recoverable reserves of the minerals used in advanced technologies. 

Lithium-sulfur batteries could represent a radical new way for storing energy to support renewable electricity generation, electric vehicles and other needs.

With abundant low-cost electricity, Australia could grow into a major global producer of minerals needed in the post-carbon world.