Australia’s sunshine state, Queensland, will spend $5 billion (US$3.36 billion) on an 1100km electricity transmission line linking the state’s vast northwest mining region to the national grid for the first time. The state government will take over private company CuString’s planned CopperString 2.0 project to build a high voltage line from Townsville to the northwest,…

Independent MP Bob Katter has issued a stinging rebuke of the Australian Senate chief after she proposed removing the Lord’s Prayer from parliamentary proceedings. It comes after the new Senate President Sue Lines said that as an atheist, she did not want to say the prayer, which has been read prior to each sitting day…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed that the Labor government will review the 99-year lease of Darwin Port to Landbridge, a Chinese company. “What I’ve said is what I said prior to the election, and I will do what I said,” Albanese said in a press conference on June 8 with Natasha Fyles, Northern…