While Western Australia’s so called “V8 economy” was driven by major resources projects more than any other state, its intra-government coordination to facilitate developments was the worst in Australia.
The door to billions of investment dollars from China’s second largest iron ore trader, Sinosteel Corp, is open to Western Australian miners and explorers as the company’s quest to secure long-term supplies gathers momentum.
China’s largest airline, China Southern Airlines, is putting the pressure on its $35 million-plus China Southern West Australian Flying College operations in Perth and Merredin to produce more commercial pilots.
Millionaire Perth businessman Nigel Gallop has hired multi-award winning winemaker Clive Otto for his newly commissioned state-of-the-art winery at Fraser Gallop Estate in Margaret River.
Many of China’s major resources and trading houses have quietly positioned themselves in Perth, seeking a foothold in the market for the raw materials needed to maintain their country’s rampant economic growth.
The pressure from aspiring iron ore producers to improve the Mid-West region’s infrastructure continued this week, along with new moves to alleviate that pressure.
China's second- largest iron ore trader, Sinosteel, is understood to be seeking a major stake in Perth-based Grange Resources Ltd's $1.5 billion dual Southdown iron ore project near Albany and Kemaman iron ore pellet operation in Malaysia.
Aspiring iron ore producer Gindalbie Metals Ltd's Karara iron ore project in Western Australia's mid west region has taken a major step forward with agreement for a $33 million capital raising.
Profit announcements from three major international resources companies have underlined the continuing confidence such companies have in Western Australia, adding lustre to the state’s already bright economic future.
The end of the decade is looming as the deadline for billions of dollars worth of infrastructure to be in place if the Mid-West region, centred on Geraldton, is to claim its place as Australia’s second largest iron ore province.
A Western Australian wine industry sales drive into the United States, targeting price points of $US15 ($A20,25) a bottle and just above, is the right strategy and seems to be working.
Freezing conditions, plant and pipeline breakdowns, debt and continuing low gold production may have finally closed the book on an Australian company’s involvement in one of Europe’s worst environmental disasters.
All the approvals for the joint developers to make a final investment decision on the $11 billion Gorgon gas project, off Western Australia's North West coast, are expected to be in place before the end of this year.
Ms Jyn Sim Baker, the woman who guided aspiring iron ore producer Midwest Corporation Limited to its first shipment later this month, has resigned as an executive director of the company.
A slightly lower $1.1 billion dollar annual profit has masked another excellent year for Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia's largest oil and gas producer.
Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has announced a record near $6 billion ($US4.4 billion) profit for the December 2005 half, up 48 per cent on the previous December half.
