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2026 AUSTRALIAN DOMESTIC GAS OUTLOOK SPEECH, SYDNEY

Whilst there remain many challenges facing Australia and our energy mix, there is still hope on the horizon. As I have said, I have faith in the Australian spirit. 
We have the best resources in the world. We have the ingenuity, the drive, and the knowledge to maximise them. 
We should not be energy-reliant, but energy-independent. We should not be in the position that we are in – today – ever again. We should be pulling every lever available to us: coal, gas, uranium, oil – and we can do that by drilling and digging what we have in abundance here.

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Wednesday, 1 April 2026

SPEECH TO MINERALS WEEK CONFERENCE, CANBERRA – RE-ENERGISING THE FUTURE

Mining pays the bills for Australia. These words remain as true today as when I made the same statement two years ago, when we last gathered for Minerals Week, and as true as 100 years ago.
The copper fields of Cloncurry to the development of coal in Queensland transformed my state from an agrarian economy – and cheap electricity (as well as the removal of death duties) turbo-charged the state into a powerhouse of small businesses, manufacturing, tourism and the arts. 

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Wednesday, 25 March 2026

PETER DUTTON BUDGET IN REPLY SPEECH

We cherish this country because it affords opportunities like no other. But only – and I stress this point – if we’re governed well. When Australia is governed badly, dreams and ambitions become beyond reach. And that’s what’s happened during the last three years under the Albanese Government.

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Thursday, 27 March 2025

ADDRESS TO ASIA PACIFIC CARBON CONNECT CONFERENCE, NEWCASTLE

So mining pays the bills for Australia and I start all of my presentations with that because that is an incredibly important thing to know and I’m not sure that Australians do know that anymore. We certainly know the Treasurer doesn’t know that. And at the budget last year with a $50 billion surplus from windfall prices, he managed in his budget speech to not mention mining at all, much less coal, gas or iron ore. Couldn’t find anywhere to mention that in his speech. That is shocking.

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Friday, 21 March 2025

SPEECH TO SENATE: STILL NO FUNDING FOR CAIRNS WATER PROJECT

What would you call a broken promise? Maybe you seek to deceive, to delude, to falsify, to mislead or to con? In April 2022 then Labor opposition leader Anthony Albanese visited Cairns during the election campaign to promise $107.5 million for the Cairns Water Security Stage 1 project.

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Wednesday, 26 June 2024

QUEENSLAND RESOURCES COUNCIL 2023 ANNUAL LUNCH FORUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Labor governments have changed from understanding the need for mining investment for jobs and wealth generation, to adherents of the precautionary principle, an innocuous sounding but sinister approach to development and prosperity. They are now a genuine threat to Australia’s competitiveness for new jobs, new projects, and continued prosperity for the next generation.

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Thursday, 9 November 2023

MINERALS WEEK, CANBERRA – KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2023

Federal Shadow Minister for Northern Australia, Senator Susan McDonald, and Federal Shadow Environment Minister, Jonno Duniam, have warned lovers of Australian seafood, meat and produce that the Albanese Government’s determination to appease UNESCO will result in food shortages, higher costs and more pain for primary producers.

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Wednesday, 6 September 2023

SPEECH TO THE WORLD 2023 MINING CONFERENCE, BRISBANE

From developments in the Bronze age, to the industrial revolution and the age of steam power, to the limitless potential of the future and yet undiscovered technologies, resources and minerals have and will remain crucial to the world’s prosperity and development.

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Monday, 26 June 2023

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