Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas
Climate crisis

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest steps up fight against big oil and gas

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers,and Woodside in particular,taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.

  • byPeter Milne

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Andrew Forrest is flying the flag for wind farms,but they face stiff headwinds
Renewables

Andrew Forrest is flying the flag for wind farms,but they face stiff headwinds

More than other renewables,wind projects and the transmission lines needed to carry their power impose themselves on the landscape.

  • byNick O'Malley
‘Get to yes or no as quickly as possible’:Bowen wants fast decisions on renewables
Energy

‘Get to yes or no as quickly as possible’:Bowen wants fast decisions on renewables

The climate change minister wants all levels of government to speed up planning decisions,but would not comment on Tanya Plibersek’s veto of Victoria’s planned wind-farm port.

  • byNick O'Malley
The WA companies that boomed and bombed in 2023
Business investment

The WA companies that boomed and bombed in 2023

Normally,the saying is you need money to make money,but in WA it seems you need ore to make more – and keep a close watch on China,costs and the energy transition.

  • byPeter Milne
Pollies,protests and billionaire bust-ups:The WA civil court rows that shaped 2023
Analysis
Courts

Pollies,protests and billionaire bust-ups:The WA civil court rows that shaped 2023

There were no shortage of court battles being waged — or rebutted — by the top end of town in 2023. We revisit some of the cases that left us shocked,bewildered and sometimes even entertained.

  • byJesinta Burton
‘Authentically Australian’:The year we lost Bondi Sands,Zimmermann,Four Pillars
Fashion retail

‘Authentically Australian’:The year we lost Bondi Sands,Zimmermann,Four Pillars

Global conglomerates paid billions of dollars for Australian brands this year – and some experts believe Aje,Smiggle,Peter Alexander could be next.

  • byJessica Yun
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Is nuclear power a viable clean energy option?
Renewables

Is nuclear power a viable clean energy option?

At the COP28 climate talks in Dubai there was a push by some to use nuclear power as a clean energy option,but critics say it’s too expensive and will take too long to build to make a difference in reducing carbon emissions.

  • byNick O'Malley andMike Foley
Rebels’ future cloudy as Australian rugby tackles thorny five-team question. Again.
Australian rugby

Rebels’ future cloudy as Australian rugby tackles thorny five-team question. Again.

At the end of a horror year for Rugby Australia,the financial struggles of its Super Rugby clubs have reopened a debate that only six years ago almost tore the game apart.

  • byIain Payten
Facebook pleads not guilty in Forrest’s clickbait battle
WA courts

Facebook pleads not guilty in Forrest’s clickbait battle

The mining magnate has accused Meta of being criminally reckless in allowing bogus advertisements for a cryptocurrency investment scheme using his image to appear on its site.

  • byAaron Bunch
In Dubai,the COP behemoth expands,raising questions about its sustainability
COP28 Dubai

In Dubai,the COP behemoth expands,raising questions about its sustainability

One hundred thousand attendees and counting:The meetings,receptions and parties are accelerating faster than climate change itself.

  • byNick O'Malley
‘Let’s talk about Meg’:Woodside wants Twiggy’s Meg O’Neill remarks condemned
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Energy

‘Let’s talk about Meg’:Woodside wants Twiggy’s Meg O’Neill remarks condemned

The WA mining billionaire fired a broadside directly at Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill and her history as an ExxonMobil executive.

  • byHamish Hastie