Robert Millner has made some comments to 'The Australian':...Mr...

Robert Millner has made some comments to 'The Australian':

...Mr Millner said red and green tape and approval delays in the resources industry were an Australian-wide problem and not confined to the fossil fuel industry.

“The thing that people don’t realize is everybody’s trying to shut down coal and gas and petroleum, but it takes as long to get an approval for a copper or cobalt mine. I don’t know where people are going to find all these commodities in years to come if all these other things do shut down,” he said.

Mr Millner called for Australia to roll out the equivalent US president-elect Donald Trump’s department of government efficiency (DOGE) to cut red and green tape in the wake of New Hope’s experiences at New Acland over the past 14 years.

The long-time chairman of Washington H Soul Pattinson, which owns the lion’s share of New Hope, said the growing bureaucratic and red tape burden on investors at all levels, including families, and should be a major election issue.

“It has to be (an election issue). Bureaucracy and the time it takes to get anything done is out of control. Look at approval for getting a house? In some shires and suburbs now it’s over 300 days. Thirty years ago, you’d go and put your plans in on a Monday morning and pick them up on a Thursday,” he said...