Jack McGinn

Fortescue deputy chair Mark Barnaba believes the Andrew Forrest-led company would struggle to get built in the modern climate, because of heavy regulatory burden.

Mineral Resources will return its Bald Hill lithium mine to production, 18 months after the project was mothballed due to depressed market conditions.

Nine Entertainment's national news content director, Gareth Parker, has quit the network and will return to Perth to take up a role in the Forrest family's business empire.

Energy infrastructure specialist GenusPlus Group will spend up to $400 million to buy out Brisbane-based MPC Kinetic, in a move which will give it east coast gas exposure.

P&N Bank will pursue a merger with Bank Australia and a headquarters move away from Perth, less than six months after a $30 billion attempt to merge with Great Southern Bank fell flat.

Equus Energy has singled out assets run by Woodside Energy and Santos as keys to unlocking its namesake gasfield off the WA coast.

Nine business chambers representing parts of Europe are planning a strategic alliance, in the wake of the recent free trade agreement between Australia and the EU.

Strike Energy chair John Poynton and chief executive Peter Stokes will leave the company, with both to be replaced by former Fortescue leaders.

Woodside Energy has ramped up its Browse project's PR offensive, commissioning an independent paper highlighting the energy importance of the giant gas project.

Jack McGinn speaks with Tom Zaunmayr about the history of Albany's port.

Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson has announced the exit of two Synergy directors and backed its chair for another term, months after ordering a review of its board.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss The McKell Institute's foray into WA.

The policy architects behind a progressive think tank's Perth expansion say they are not afraid of copycats.

Wiluna Mining Corporation management has sought Supreme Court intervention in its ongoing control spat with an entity linked to prominent prospector Mark Creasy.

Hancock Prospecting has referred an $850 million gas plant to regulators, outlining a Perth Basin gas vision beyond the assets it acquired from Mineral Resources in 2024.

Regis Resources and Vault Minerals will merge, in a move which could create a new top three, $10.7 billion goldminer in Western Australia.

Woodside Energy has appointed Breyden Lonnie as its executive vice president and Australian chief operating officer, filling the role vacated by new CEO Liz Westcott.

A subsidiary company holding a 10 per cent stake in the Shell-led Prelude LNG project recorded a $58.3 million impairment on its stake in the asset last year.

A regional development assessment panel has unanimously approved Synergy's contentious $500 million Scott River wind farm, despite significant public concern over the project.

Average renewable contributions to Western Australia's wholesale electricity market fell back more than 6 per cent quarter-on-quarter during the three months to March 31.

Woodside Energy's new chief executive has flagged a cost-focused review of the business, following a quarter in which realised prices rose 11 per cent for its product.

Jack McGinn and Nadia Budihardjo discuss how some gold producers are using nickel infrastructure.

A handful of WA gold developers are finding cost and time savings in unexpected places.

Mark Pownall, Jack McGinn, Tom Zaunmayr and Claire Tyrrell discuss Woodside's AGM, BHP-China impasse ending, exploration costs reprieve, Fortescue's green power play and more.

Jack McGinn speaks with Nadia Budihardjo about a recent court ruling and what that means for freedom of information requests.

Woodside Energy has been grilled over its claim the Browse project would be rendered uneconomic under a mooted gas export tax, at a Greens-led senate committee in Perth.

Woodside Energy chair Richard Goyder has dismissed suggestions that the recruitment of director Mark Cutifani comes with a conflict of interest relating to his cousin Tim.

Woodside Energy chair Richard Goyder has used his address to the company's ever eventful AGM to stress the importance of regulatory certainty, amid talk of a new gas export tax.

Chevron has fully restored LNG production at its Wheatstone LNG facility, almost a month after Cyclone Narelle damaged infrastructure at the project near Onslow.

The battle for Wiluna Mining Corporation and its lucrative gold portfolio is heating up again, with management seeking to dodge a Creasy-led control attempt and change its name ahead of a relisting.

The DomGas Alliance has teed off at Woodside Energy, claiming it has banked more than $5 billion worth of exported gas from Pluto that should have been sold locally.

Kewdale-based Pacific Energy will build and maintain utility-scale batteries for the Northern Territory government over the coming years, under an $82.1 million contract.