Tagged with Productivity Commission

The cost of Chevron Australia’s Gorgon gas fields project: what the workers say

Centre for Work Organisation and Wellbeing
Published AuthorCentre Manager
Stranded gas. Once alooongway from its intended market, heavy global investment, particularly by US multinational corporations (MNCs) in recent years, sees the delivery of natural gas to consumers no longer the problem it once was. And Australia is host to one such operation. Chevron’s Gorgon gas Project – Australia’s largest ever resource project – is […]

Time to deal with disaster from the front

Setting sun shines on a truck that is picking up post-disaster debris.
Centre for Governance and Public Policy
Published AuthorStephen O'Grady
A once-in-a-generation opportunity to shift the focus of disaster management policy in Australia must be seized, says adjunct professor at Griffith University’s School of Government and International Relations, Jim McGowan AM. In a Griffith University submission to the Productivity Commission’s public inquiry into Natural Disaster Funding Arrangements, Professor McGowan has called for a move away […]