Australia’s minister for Industry and Innovation, Greg Combet, has praised a manufacturer producing bioplastic packaging from corn starch for some of Australia’s biggest retailers. Mr Combet said that following the expansion of its manufacturing facilities it would increase production by …

The vice president of the world’s biggest petroleum company says Australia should be the world’s biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by the end of the decade. The emergence of natural gas as a power source was a decisive …

Australia’s conservative Liberal-National federal opposition leader,Tony Abbott, has rejected claims he’s “over-egged the pudding” with his warnings on the impending carbon price. He was responding to claims by the minority Labor government’s Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, that Australians would realise …

The resource-rich state of Western Australia will address its huge energy needs over the next four years with a $4.6 billion investment detailed in the conservative Liberal-National state government’s budget. Western Australia’s Treasurer Christian Porter announced that $7.6 billion would …

A new scientific study indicates the rise in temperatures in and around Australia since 1950 has been unprecedented for 1000 years. In the first study of its type in the region a team led by scientists at the University of …