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travelPremiumQantas launches largest sale in five years

The airline has launched its biggest domestic sale in five years, cutting prices on 1.9 million seats on 25 routes.

Blair Jackson

Fears young people are seeing child abuse and suicide content on Roblox persist, months after the platform dodged the under-16s social media ban in Australia. Supplied

newsPremium‘Horrendous’: Gaming platform on notice

The massive Roblox platform is allegedly exposing young people to child abuse and suicide content, just months after escaping the under-16s social media ban.

Blair Jackson

WA had the six of the fastest growing investment suburbs in the nation over the past two years.

PropertyCommentsPremiumOnce-maligned suburb among six WA capital growth powerhouses

WA had the six of the fastest growing investment suburbs in the nation over the past two years. SEE THE LIST

Kim Macdonald

The disclosures sent the Jeep and Fiat maker’s stock plunging 25 per cent intraday in Milan trading.

MarketsPremiumStellantis rout nears €70b after surprise writedowns

Fourteen months after Stellantis NV parted ways with a chief executive officer who surprised investors with wayward results, his successor has pulled a similar move.

Albertina Torsoli and Gabrielle Coppola

Reach Resources undertook drilling at its Murchison South gold project in November last year to lift targeted resource areas from inferred to indicated resource categories.

Reach nails exceptional gold recoveries in WA Murchison met tests

Exceptional metallurgical recoveries up to 97% from Reach Resources’ Murchison South gold project in WA have confirmed its ore as free-milling, soft and amenable to gravity and cyanide leach processing.

Doug Bright

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Semi massive nickel sulphide in drill core from the Western Mines Group’s Mulga Tank project.

Western Mines targets high-grade nickel in WA

Western Mines Group has fired up plans to drill high-grade nickel sulphides and conduct shallow resource infill drilling at an extensive nickel sulphide system within the Mulga Tank ultramafic complex in WA.

Michael Busbridge

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MarketsPremiumASX rebounds to strongest day since April

The Australian sharemarket has rebounded for its biggest gains since Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariff announcements.

Blair Jackson

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in front of steel frames while on the campaign trail in South Australia 2025.

TradePremiumAustralia tariffs Chinese steel frames amid dumping claims

Australia has imposed a 10 per cent tariff on steel ceiling frames from China, following an investigation by the nation’s Anti-Dumping Commission.

Paul-Alain Hunt

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newsPremiumLegendary cartoonist Jon Kudelka dies

Award-winning Australian cartoonist Jon Kudelka is being remembered as “brilliant, scathing, wily and wry” following his death aged 53.

Blair Jackson

Dateline Resources’ South open pit at the company’s historic Colosseum mine site in California.

Dateline geophysics zero in on deep US gold targets

Fresh geophysics have tightened up deep targets ahead of drilling at Dateline Resources’ gold project in California, with multiple datasets lining up over a large mineralised.

Doug Bright

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Lindian Resources’ Kangankunde mining team with owner-operated machinery on site.

Lindian secures long-lead gear as Malawian rare earths build gathers pace

Lindian Resources has firmly shifted its Kangankunde rare earths project into execution mode, ordering critical long-lead processing equipment and ramping up construction activity in Malawi.

Rowena Duckworth

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Golden Dragon Mining undertaking drill hole sampling at Coodardy in Western Australia.

Golden Dragon hits broad high-grade gold zones in WA

Golden Dragon Mining’s maiden drill program at its Cue gold project in WA’s Murchison region has struck high-grade gold, including 8m at 7.3g/t, confirming the presence of a broader mineralised gold system.

Michael Busbridge

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Infini Resources split core from drillhole sample H091491 reveals visible uraninite along joint surfaces and fractures from a depth of 28m. Analysis of 1m of core, including this sample, returned 124ppm uranium oxide.

Infini locks onto district-scale uranium system in Newfoundland

Infini Resources has hit anomalous uranium ranging between 25 and 347 parts per million uranium oxide in five adjacent diamond drill holes at its Portland Creek uranium project in Newfoundland, Canada.

Doug Bright

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The brand has announced the majority of its stores will be closing its doors in 2026.

WA NewsComments‘Affordable’ homewares brand shutting 12 WA stores

The brand has become a staple in WA shopping centres since it opened the doors to its first location in 1975.

Tegwen Bescoby

Minister for Regional Development Stephen Dawson, Wines of WA CEO Larry Jorgensen, Great Southern Wine Producers Association chair Tom Wisdom, Samantha Rowe MLC, and GSWPA representatives Peter Cooke and Mark Forest.

Winery Investment PremiumWineries raising a glass to $9m promotion partnership

WA’s wine industry will receive a major boost, with the State Government uncorking $6 million to help local vineyards reach more domestic and global markets via a new partnership. 

Amy Towers

There is a gloomy outlook for household spending after the RBA rate hike last week.

EconomyCommentsPremiumGloomy outlook for household spending after RBA rate hike

Household spending unexpectedly declined in December, with the outlook for the year ahead gloomy after the Reserve Bank of Australia hiked interest rates last week.

Cheyanne Enciso

HBF chief executive Lachlan Henderson.

HealthCommentsPremiumHBF injects more tech expertise into board

The appointments of Isar Mazer and Russell Baskerville as non-executive directors lift board numbers back out to nine ahead of the proposed retirement of deputy chair Brent Stewart later this year.. 

Sean Smith

Some investors worry personal AI agents will soon shop for properties, jobs or cars on your behalf, cutting traffic to popular websites may slow. Experts have a different theory.

MarketsCommentsPremiumInvestors wary of AI agents stalking online classified sites

Some investors worry personal AI agents will soon shop for properties, jobs or cars on your behalf, cutting traffic to popular websites may slow. Experts have a different theory.

Tom Richardson

Bringing in Riverside is hoped to lift Bhagwan’s recurring revenue base to about 50 per cent.

Mergers and AcquisitionsCommentsPremiumMarine dealer Bhagwan splashes out with $130m Riverside buy

Bhagwan Marine will splash more than $100 million on a century-old family business running about 30 vessels out of Brisbane, in a deal the buyer hopes will broaden its geographical reach and bolster revenues. 

Simone Grogan

Drilling rig at Gateway Mining’s Yandal gold project in Western Australia.

Second gold system looms for Gateway in WA

Gateway Mining has struck further shallow oxide gold at a new prospect within its WA Yandal project, unlocking a largely untouched 4km-long shear zone that could host a significant new gold system.

Rowena Duckworth

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CAR Group, which operates Carsales.com, has posted double-digit revenue and earnings growth. (Darren England/AAP PHOTOS)

FinancePremiumCarsales.com owner sees big potential in driving AI use

Vehicle sales platform CAR Group says it's using AI to let consumers browse for new vehicles using conversational voice search, after posting a rise in profit.

Derek Rose

The Australian share market has traded higher, recouping most of Friday's $60 billion in losses. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

MarketsPremiumBourse back with a vengeance as miners, IT stocks surge

Miners, IT and real estate stocks have led the bourse higher as dip buyers helped stage a dramatic comeback for local equities - for the time being.

Adrian Black

Albany, Esperance, Kwinana South, and Geraldton Port Zones all set new seasonal records.

Bumper HarvestPremiumRecords tumble on way to CBH’s biggest-ever harvest

CBH Group has called time on the biggest harvest in its 92 year history after receiving 24 million tonnes of WA farmers’ grain and smashing dozens of records.

Georgia Campion

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News‘Survival’: Grim work trend hits Australia

As the cost-of-living crisis continues its grip on Australian households, millions are searching for ways to survive.

Alexandra Feiam