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A major mining company is going to spoil someone’s pastoral lease without their consent, writes former native title lawyer Sarah Burnside. Only thing is, “someone” is Andrew Forrest.

ATO to go miners over dodgy transactions? … Merry Christmas Tony Abbott, here is Crikey’s reading list for you … who’s who in newsrooms of old …

For year’s the Australian economy has been riding on the backs of miners, but momentum has rapidly moved downwards, reports The Wall Street Journal, due to a number of projects on hold.

While mining continues to expand its workforce, professional services is now becoming a key employer in Australia.

Despite what Tony Abbott might like you to believe, a leading US mining consultancy has, for third year in a row, listed Australia as the best place to be a miner.

Mining regulation in Queensland is a complex web. Industry, farmers and the local community are crying out for a clearer regulatory framework, writes Troy Collings is the CEO of Best Practice Regulatory Services (BPRS).

The biggest single brake on Australian productivity is the mining industry, where productivity has declined by more than a quarter in the past two years, an analysis of ABS data reveals.

A proposal to use normal corporate practices against the coal mining industry has apparently outraged conservative media outlets.

Crikey readers have their say.

You don’t become one of Australia’s richest men without a making a few friends in some pretty high places. And West Australian resources entrepreneur Andrew Forrest certainly has some good ones. So, just who are some of Twiggy’s friends? And what have they done for him lately?

Tony Abbott has arrived late and confused at an issue the Greens have been pursuing for years. Declaring you support both farmers and miners on these issues is merely going to make everyone unhappy.

Mining companies are winning the support of farmers in the Dalby Downs region of North Queensland by offering to return water used during the process of coal seam gas extraction, despite concerns about water quality.

The Greens strategic path is obvious, and half-completed. To outflank Labor, march through the heartland, and connect to rural Australians increasingly disturbed by the conflict between farming and mining.

As controversy bubbles over the latest big local farmland buy-up and what it means for food production, it’s worth looking to see where these foreign raiders are coming from, who’s backing them and how other countries are tightening regulations to stop them.

Gina Rinehart hates the label “Australia’s richest person”. So how will she and the rest of the country react when (not if) she ranks as the “world’s richest”, as can be forecast using the latest research? asks Tim Treadgold.

Some of our “Australian” industry bodies don’t quite live up to their titles, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Iona Salter.