Tim Treadgold

Bankers might have caused the never-ending global financial crisis but it is politicians who are perpetuating it as the latest European farce, a raid on bank accounts held in Cyprus, so brilliantly il

It’s a good thing for the re-elected state government that the property market is rising, because without an increase in stamp duty from extra house sales, the state budget could develop a large hole

Political and environmental pressure on the state government, whichever side wins on Saturday, will have no effect on the future of the onshore gas processing centre proposed for James Price Point in

Psst! Wanna buy a second-hand, slightly shop-soiled nickel mining business?

If Australia was a shop, the owner has just hung out a sign saying “closed until after the election”, a point driven home by instability at the highest level of government, the latest ludicrous attempt to boost manufacturing, and more so because no-one in business has dared criticise the loopy plan.

The late Robert Holmes a Court loved what he called “black letter law” - written so tightly by governments that they thought no-one could find a loophole, but which to him was merely a mental puzzle - the sort solved by BHP Billiton as it revved up a 320-tonne Komatsu ore-truck and drove it through the minerals resource rent tax.

There will be some glum faces among the many Australian goldminers in Cape Town this week for the world’s second biggest mining conference, the annual Mining Indaba, because their favourite metal seem

Claude Dauphin and Gina Rinehart are two of the richest people in the world with fortunes built on commodities, but that’s where the comparison ends because Dauphin is pessimistic about future commodi

SAM Walsh has been thrust into the big chair at one of the world’s biggest companies, Rio Tinto, which has finally decided to clean up the last of the mess left by the GFC.