Australian ‘green’ steel a step closer as iron ore rivals BHP and Rio team up

Australian ‘green’ steel a step closer as iron ore rivals BHP and Rio team up

The world’s two biggest miners are teaming up in a bid to develop Australia’s first electric-smelting furnace.

  • byPaul-Alain Hunt

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Buyers sign gas deals with Senex,but stalled project still in doubt

Buyers sign gas deals with Senex,but stalled project still in doubt

Senex says gas-fired power plants will play a role in the clean energy transition by backing up renewable energy when wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining.

  • byNick Toscano
Top manufacturers back safeguard climate reforms

Top manufacturers back safeguard climate reforms

BlueScope Steel and Orica have thrown their support behind the government’s new climate policy after originally fearing it could pummel their competitiveness.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
BlueScope found guilty of attempted steel price fixing

BlueScope found guilty of attempted steel price fixing

Australia’s biggest steelmaker faces the prospect of a large fine after one of its now former executives tried to form a cartel with nine other companies to fix the price of flat steel products.

  • bySarah Danckert
How a meeting in Taiwan could seal the fate of former BlueScope exec

How a meeting in Taiwan could seal the fate of former BlueScope exec

Whether Jason Ellis’s tour of Asia to talk up BlueScope’s recommended price list for flat-steel products was an attempt to establish a cartel is likely to be the focus of a court ruling,expected early this year.

  • byJames Panichi andLaurel Henning
Glimpses of a low carbon future amid Port Kembla’s coal and steel

Glimpses of a low carbon future amid Port Kembla’s coal and steel

The Illawarra has the workforce,the industrial and academic know-how and the transport and energy links to be a major player in greener manufacturing.

  • byPeter Hannam
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‘Real and present danger’:Government considers making company directors personally liable for cyber attacks

Government research shows cyber crime is costing the Australian economy about $3.5 billion every year.

  • byAnthony Galloway
Ex-BlueScope executive receives suspended sentence over cartel probe

Ex-BlueScope executive receives suspended sentence over cartel probe

Jason Ellis pleaded guilty to one charge of obstructing a Commonwealth official during the ACCC's cartel investigation into the steel giant.

  • bySarah Danckert
Steeling for a rebound:BlueScope boosts its profit forecasts

Steeling for a rebound:BlueScope boosts its profit forecasts

Australia's biggest steelmaker BlueScope has lifted its first-half earnings guidance by a hefty 39.7 per cent to $475 million.

  • byDarren Gray
An old flame:Scott Morrison pushes his plans for gas

An old flame:Scott Morrison pushes his plans for gas

Scott Morrison has turned his attention from his old fossil-fuel friend coal to another with his new energy plans.

  • byNick O'Malley
Ex-BlueScope manager pleads guilty to inciting obstruction of cartel probe

Ex-BlueScope manager pleads guilty to inciting obstruction of cartel probe

Former BlueScope executive Jason Ellis faces a maximum one-year jail term after pleading guilty to one charge of obstructing a cartel investigation.

  • byDarren Gray