Tom Zaunmayr

The descendant of a Pilbara Strike leader has laid down a challenge for miners to lift royalty payments and help native title holders build their own mines.

Mark Pownall, Tom Zaunmayr and Claire Tyrrell discuss the big events of the week in WA business and politics, spanning gas tax speculation, renewable energy, lithium's contradictions, Perth house prices, and more.

Profit from CITIC Pacific's Pilbara magnetite project has fallen again, making $US105 million for its Hong Kong-based owners last year.

A Pilbara native title group is building a home away from home in Perth to house traditional owners visiting the city for medical treatment.

The federal government has launched a new office to determine the value Indigenous enterprises bring to Australia's economy.

Australia's window to build a green iron industry is at risk as China and Middle East muscle into the burgeoning sector, according to a national clean energy thinktank.

Tom Zaunmayr talks to Justin Fris about Business News' recent business of sport feature.

The state government will spend $32 million laying the groundway for 16 new lots in Newman's light industrial area.

A deal struck between a junior mining firm and Victorian company could see iron ore smelting take place at a former Mineral Resources mine in the Pilbara this year.

A Singaporean real estate investment trust has splashed $28 million on a Port Hedland apartment block one week after entering the Pilbara with its first acquisition in Karratha.

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.

More than 100 new lots will be readied for sale in Broome under a $41 million budget commitment by the state government.

A $950 million green energy project has been backed by Fortescue's board to satiate the miner's needs and deliver power for local industries such as data centres.

The state government will waive minimum spending obligations for some exploration companies to help them cope with escalating diesel costs.

OPINION: Renewable energy developers need to think, and speak differently, to win over regional WA

Family drill rig outfit Wallis Drilling has opened the doors to its new $30 million headquarters as it taps into electrification and eyes growth into other sectors.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Justin Fris about Business News' recent agribusiness feature.

Protracted price negotiations between BHP and China's central resource buying agency have been put to bed with seemingly little impact on the big Australian's bottom line.

A proposal for the use and protection of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River places restrictions on water use by pastoralists.

A historically fraught relationship between Indigenous people and colonial agriculture is being broken down by a new wave of farmers

The state government is working on a deal to use a federal government loan scheme to support mid-tier infrastructure projects in the North West.

Fine foods wholesaler European Foods has been snapped up by New West Foods for an undisclosed sum.

Fuel price spikes and supply chain disruptions caused by war in the Middle East are yet to weigh on Rio Tinto's operations.

A workforce camp in Karratha's industrial estate has sold for $45 million to a Singaporean property investment fund.

A week-long impact at port hubs in the Pilbara due to cyclone Narelle has cost Qube upwards of $5 million.

A WA government cash injection will keep vital food relief delivery trucks on the road as demand for their services ramps up due to rising fuel bills.

Tom Zaunmayr speaks to Jack McGinn about the new Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA president Digby Stretch.

Mark Pownall, Nadia Budihardjo, Claire Tyrrell and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the Hancock-Wright judgment, major property deals, the fuel crisis and agribusiness woes.

The new agriculture lobby leader is balancing an overhaul of the organisation and a sweeping policy agenda.

A company backed by former West Coast Eagle Matt Priddis has swooped on a 350-hectare farm near Albany for $7.4 million.

WAFarmers has warned Elders' retreat from selling Western Australian wool locally is the first domino in the sector's supply chain to fall as the federal government's live export ban looms.

WA Premier Roger Cook expects tighter fuel restrictions are around the corner as uncertainty looms over the length of a US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.