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Thursday, November 14

Investment risk warning over new "Olympic Dam Tax"

Uncertainty over the Marshall Government’s parked Mining Bill and an “unprecedented” new $2 million slug to companies seeking exploration licences in some of the state’s most desirable sites have prompted industry warnings that investment could be put at risk.

Mining reform in a hole as minister digs in on veto

Mining Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan has dug in over his opposition to giving landholders a right of veto over exploration companies, telling an industry conference he takes “absolutely full responsibility” for the Marshall Government’s mining reforms falling into indefinite limbo.

Liberal backbenchers Fraser Ellis, Steve Murray, Dan Cregan and Nick McBride voting with the Labor Opposition after crossing the floor last year.

Mining Bill impasse as department 'overrules minister'

The Marshall Government appears all-but back to square one on its controversial Mineral Resources legislation, with the state bureaucracy understood to have overruled a compromise brokered by Mining Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan to win assent from a group of rebel backbenchers who last year crossed the floor to defer the Bill.

Marshall’s energy plan: home solar batteries, interconnector, exit fee ban

The SA Liberal Party has released a suite of energy policies it says will lower energy prices, stabilise the grid and secure interconnection with New South Wales – but it is yet to decide who should benefit from $100 million in subsidies for home solar batteries.

Dan van Holst Pellekaan

Investment risk warning over new "Olympic Dam Tax"

Mining reform in a hole as minister digs in on veto

Mining Bill impasse as department 'overrules minister'

Marshall’s energy plan: home solar batteries, interconnector, exit fee ban

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