A $60 million promise to double the beds at the Great Southern’s largest hospital has been pushed further down the pipeline, as Thursday’s State budget revealed only $1m allocated over four years to planning.
Melissa Sheil
A $15 billion plan to upgrade economic infrastructure and ‘make more things’ in WA will need to grapple with a severe worker shortage and the threat of rising costs.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
A further delay suggests a decision may now not be made until 2026.
Sean Smith
A new large-scale wind farm should be returning at least $100,000 a year to regional communities, based on trial guidelines set to be probed by locals who want new energy developers to pay their way.
Simone Grogan
A ‘once-in-a-generation’ cash injection of $543 million for the Goldfields pipeline will from 2027 double the water storage capacity of the Binduli Reservoir that supplies Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Neil Watkinson
The State Government’s energy transition planning has been graded an F by industry lobbyists amid warnings time is running out to build new power lines and get ready for the closure of coal.
Matt Mckenzie
The Onslow Iron haul road is looking better and the new chairman left a good impression — that was the verdict from a throng of analysts inspecting Mineral Resources’ most important project.
Adrian Rauso
A plan to build a shopping centre with a supermarket and seven speciality shops in the Shire of Denmark has opened for public comment.
A stretch of Middleton and Emu beaches will be closed for three days later this month to replace and relocate sand that has eroded after an unusual number of easterly and southerly swells
A development application to build a service station with an attached fast food outlet and ancillary car wash in central Bayonet Head is open for public comment.
Freight rail operator Aurizon is slashing 200 jobs after a series of major bulk customers have run aground and Alcoa closed a key WA operation.
A portal enabling residents to have their say on the future of northern Albany has opened, marking the first step to develop and govern future infrastructure — including the controversial Range Road.
Energy giant AGL is considering a major expansion of the Kwinana Swift gas power station amid a wave of investment into the State’s electricity grid.
Horizon Power chief executive Stephanie Unwin will switch tracks from energy to railways as the new boss of Arc Infrastructure.
WA would get a better deal by delaying the $7 billion-plus Westport project for another decade, as scrutiny over the State Government’s infrastructure spending widens.
Ghost trains to Yanchep have dominated headlines this month but two alleged $1 billion-plus clerical errors may have given Transport Minister Rita Saffioti an even bigger fright.
Roadworks in Middleton Beach under construction since November have been further delayed, with the City of Albany pushing its expected completion date to May.
New Metronet suburbs have had a mixed bag of property fortunes, with some outperforming while others lag neighbours who do not have a new train station on their doorstep.
Kim Macdonald
Transport Minister Rita Saffioti has refused to directly answer further questions about the State Government’s Metronet rail program and instead turned her fire on the Opposition.
Peak-hour ghost trains to Yanchep will haunt Rita Saffioti as the price tag for Metronet nears $14 billion.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have both pledged to return the Chinese-owned Port of Darwin to Australian hands.
Danielle Le Messurier
Canadian energy giant TransAlta has won the approval of the regulator for a new gas power plant that would support a restart of BHP‘s mothballed WA nickel operations.
Drivers passing through Middleton Beach, and residents in the area, will have to wait another week for roadworks on Middleton Road to finish with the city confirming the March completion date has been delayed.
Iron ore road trains are rolling once again on Mineral Resources’ contentious Onslow haul road, but the miner has given no details on any new safety measures put in place to avoid another rollover.
Daniel Newell and Adrian Rauso
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