Is Australia ‘giving away’ its natural resources?
- Written by Diane Kraal, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University

Speaking on ABC’s Q&A on Monday night, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz claimed Australia was “giving away its natural resources”, something he found “mind boggling”.
He said that if Australia made the fossil fuel industry pay for the value of the resources it extracts...