State’s NuCoal Resources expropriation hurts small investors
If the Bible wasn’t clear enough about stealing, the Magna Carta was. Property ownership is a human right and it is time for NSW to pay NuCoal Resources for the...
Mike Baird should right Barry O’Farrell’s wrong
Eventually, NSW Premier Mike Baird will realise the time has come to cut adrift his predecessor, Barry O’Farrell, and make amends for abandoning due process and respect for property rights....
US investor warns of sovereign risk after NuCoal loss
An American institutional investor has warned that it is unlikely to ever again invest in Australia because the NSW government expropriated its assets and has refused to pay compensation. Boston-based...
Asset Seizure by NSW Infuriates Americans
American institutions are considering launching international arbitration proceedings against Australia because the government of former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell expropriated US assets worth $120 million. [caption id="attachment_943" align="alignleft" width="201"] Glen...
ICAC Won’t Lift Suppression for Parliamentary Oversight
[caption id="attachment_917" align="alignleft" width="135"] Chris Merritt - The Australian[/caption] The Independent Commission Against Corruption has refused to lift a suppression order over key documents from three completed inquiries because it...
Asset Seizure by NSW Infuriates Americans
American institutions are considering launching international arbitration proceedings against Australia because the government of former NSW premier Barry O’Farrell expropriated US assets worth $120 million. The US institutions, which had...
ICAC’s Failings are Caused by its Alien Structure
One of the enduring criticisms of the NSW justice system has been its failure to secure criminal convictions against those who have already been processed by the Independent Commission Against...
Former Mining Minister Calls for Judicial Inquiry into State’s Anti-corruption Commission
Former NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald has called for a judicial inquiry into the state’s anticorruption commission after obtaining confidential transcripts in which witnesses, including Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese ,...
Queensland’s ‘Enough is Enough’ Job Campaign is Waiving the Flag for Australians
The Queensland Resources Council online ‘Enough is Enough’ petition has now reached more than 2000 signatures, just a month after its launch. QRC Chief Executive Michael Roche said the petition...
NuCoal investor makes plea to NSW MPs
Sean Nicholls State Political Editor The plight of a shareholder who faces losing hundreds of thousands of dollars when a controversial coal licence is torn up by the NSW government...