Crown shuffling the deckchairs ahead of Bergin report
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Former judge, Patricia Bergin will hand down her report into Crown Resorts this week. Illustration: John Shakespeare
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Crown Resortsâ tense wait for
Patricia Berginâs verdict on its suitability to operate a Sydney casino is coming to an end: the former judge is set to hand her report to the NSW gaming regulator on Monday.
But it might be another fortnight before the public â and Crown executives â are able to read Berginâs recommendations, given the Independent Liquor and Gaming Regulator wants to consider the findings in private before making the report public.
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Climate change is back in the spotlight as a growing number of groups urge the Morrison government to commit to net zero emissions by 2050.
Business leaders, scientists and government department officials have appeared before a parliamentary hearing looking at enshrining the target in legislation.
The climate change bill is not supported by the federal government but a broad coalition of stakeholders believe it is a sensible path forward.
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Independent MP Zali Steggall, who put forward the private member s bill, said it was time for politicians of all persuasions to address climate change policies. The government and especially the minister is, with respect, at the moment, playing politics with our future, she said.
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Subscriber only Gladstone has been identified as a key location in a new plan aimed at promoting manufacturing job opportunities in regional Australia. The National Party s Backbench Policy Committee released its Manufacturing 2035 plan last Friday. The plan outlined the National Party s vision for the manufacturing industry and a broad policy platform to help encourage industry growth. Within the nine-page plan, the committee hoped to establish an Office of Regional Manufacturing in Gladstone and Newcastle. Chair of the committee Senator Matthew Canavan said radical action must be taken to reverse the trend of less items being made in Australia.
The Nationals have tabled a blueprint to reinvigorate Australia’s declining manufacturing industry, and it focuses on two important issues which have emerged since COVID, creating more Australian made products and “standing up to China’s threats”.
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan has pushed this blueprint which aims to achieve increased manufacturing by focusing on what has caused Australia’s de-industrialisation.
“The last ten years has seen our manufacturing sector decline precipitously … it’s because our energy costs have gone through the roof, they’ve gone up 91 per cent for Australian manufacturers,” he said.
“And it’s because we’ve seen other countries disregard international trading rules”.
China has “massively subsidized” its industries like the steel industry, which should force Australia to take action at the WTO and “become self-sufficient in steel again”.
He said the lack of cheap energy in Australia has sped up the massive decline in