WA’s improved surplus has been driven mostly by an uptick in iron ore royalties,but those gains were offset by ramped-up spending.
Documents unearthed in a multibillion-dollar court fight reveal Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Rio Tinto warned a syndicate of bankers that other dynasties may chase royalties.
Police want the state liquor licensing director to look at harsher alcohol restrictions in the Kimberley,Pilbara,Mid West and Goldfields. But that request was never meant to be aired in public.
A contract announcement from Woodside has shocked campaigners aiming to protect globally significant rock art on the Murujuga peninsula in the country’s north-west.
Offshore Alliance says about 500 employees secured their key bargaining claims following months of negotiations and industrial action at the Gorgon and Wheatstone gas plants.
Rio Tinto has apologised after iron ore blasting may have damaged a registered cultural heritage site,three years after the global Juukan Gorge scandal.
Work bans and stoppages from one hour to 12 hours long have only been taken in selected areas like export terminals.
The shutdown adds to the US LNG giant’s headaches in WA as it prepares for union-led work stoppages this week.
A group exercising on the foreshore in WA’s Pilbara stepped in after a man allegedly tried to drown his young son on Monday morning.
Global gas markets will breathe a sigh of relief if 150 offshore workers endorse a deal with Woodside struck agreed early Thursday morning after 15 hours of negotiation.
The Yindjibarndi people of WA’s Pilbara region are seeking $500 million from Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue for mining the land they have exclusive native title over without their agreement,the Federal Court has heard.