The minister charged with overseeing Australia’s green industry push says he is “confident” a deal will be reached to save a struggling smelter.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
As fuel prices are expected to jump this week, retailers have been put on notice that their conduct will be “closely examined”.
Blair Jackson and Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Amber-Jade Sanderson will head to Canberra seeking Federal Government cash for new industries in Collie as the clock ticks on the closure of coal power stations.
Matt Mckenzie
WorkSafe says AR Constructions (WA) Pty Ltd has pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the heath and safety of rigger Adrian Fariña Pacheco, who was killed at a Malaga construction site by a falling steel column.
Sean Smith
A Perth think tank has urged governments to save cash from WA’s resources bonanza for future decades through a sovereign wealth fund — and avoid taking direct ownership of projects.
Woodside Energy has locked in a gas deal with manufacturer Alcoa until the end of the decade as the sector remains under hot scrutiny over local supply.
“My clients are steaming, and so am I, because I’ve lost a pile of dough,” Shaw and Partners adviser Tony Mitchell tells Fleetwood management.
The owner of the WesTrac Caterpillar franchise told investors the buyback “will not constrain SGH’s ability to continue investing in its businesses or to pursue inorganic growth at scale”.
Australia’s participation rate has stalled far behind its global peers, costing the national economy an insane $29bn a year.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe
Manufacturers are bracing for weaker conditions in the coming months but Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock warns demand has to slow to get inflation under control.
Cheyanne Enciso
American manufacturer Alcoa has declared its two remaining refineries in WA are ‘really challenged’ but ruled out the plants following the Kwinana refinery into closure ... for now.
Matt Mckenzie and Jacob Lorinc
Woodside Energy has signalled construction of a $1 billion hydrogen plant in Rockingham could start as soon as next year but the company has axed green power in favour of natural gas.
Australia’s only silicon smelter cut jobs and scaled back production just a year after being selected for a $40 million green energy grant from Federal taxpayers aimed at boosting employment.
Adrian Rauso
Being just the second chair who hasn’t worked at Wesfarmers makes the appointment of Ken MacKenzie rare enough to question whether he will stick to the succession script when it comes to the next CEO.
Leigh Cometti’s $50 million CTS Tyre Recycling facility in northern Perth wants mine operators banned from burying the huge off-the-road tyres used on haulage trucks.
Gene Miller has been running Austal USA and its Mobile, Alabama shipyard as interim president since the exit of Michelle Kruger in February after a profit blunder that torpedoed Austal’s profit guidance.
Major gas users hope a proposed national reservation scheme will add pressure to reform WA’s 20-year-old rules.
Hyperion Systems’ 4.6m Astra 460, said to be the first unmanned vessel made in the southern hemisphere by a 3D machine, was exhibited for potential customers at a defence conference in Perth.
Premier Roger Cook will announce that WA is seeking formal expressions of interest from global defence giants to set up a large-scale weapons manufacturing facility in Collie, The West can reveal.
Andrew Greene
WA’s second-biggest industry remains uncertain exactly how a new national gas reservation scheme will apply in the State after draft guidelines were released by the Federal Government on Monday.
One state will have 5 per cent lower power prices from July 1, with the regulator announcing the default offer prices on Monday.
Blair Jackson
Fifteen WA manufacturers will receive a $49 million boost under a Cook Government scheme to fast-track housing supply and break West Australians of their ‘love affair’ with double-brick homes.
Bethany Hiatt
The days of flipping houses could be dead, experts say, in the wake of major changes to investment property taxes.
The Australian sharemarket has recorded its best day in six weeks, as higher jobless figures spark investor relief that rate hikes may be off the table.
