Commodity prices and the Australian dollar all extended a dramatic fall to reverse the hottest trade since Trump’s 2024 election victory led investors to bet interest rate cuts were coming.
Tom Richardson
The miner will mothball a garnet operation on the Mid West coast just nine months after scooping it up from a failed company run by Chris Ellison’s brother.
Adrian Rauso
A farmer has dug up about 1.5kg of a rare delicacy worth thousands of dollars on his property and the discovery has sparked global attention.
Emma Kirk
An updated road map for decarbonising the electricity system features a bigger role for batteries and solar, and a smaller but crucial contribution from wind.
Poppy Johnston
For young low and middle-income Australians, a $1,000 superannuation top-up could boost their retirement by $40,000, according to figures from HESTA.
Derek Rose
WA travellers look set to miss out on ultra-cheap airfares to the east coast as a bold new entrant aims to break Australia’s domestic airline duopoly.
Rebecca Le May
Rumble Resources has increased the gold mineral resource estimate at its Western Queen project in the Mid West — which now includes a new high-grade zone directly below the historical underground workings.
Neil Watkinson
The West Australian Institute of Sport will today launch a bold strategy to attract more corporate funding so it can continue ‘punching above its weight’ at Olympic and Commonwealth Games.
Glen Quartermain
Why did Woodside send an algae producer from WA to a climate conference where all the big American oil companies operate? The answer lies in the waste and fuel that is carbon dioxide.
Ryan Johnson
The Reserve Bank is turning its attention to employment figures after high core inflation showed price pressures were still too high for comfort.
Jacob Shteyman
US stocks have closed mostly lower as investors await earnings reports and monitor economic data releases.
Abigail Summerville, Twesha Dikshit and Joel Jose
Perth houses are forecast to grow a median 7 per cent in price next year to reach a new record high, with interest rates likely to hold for a year.
Kim Macdonald
Gina Rinehart has named a homeless veterans’ housing complex after her “hero” Ben Roberts-Smith, despite the decorated Victoria Cross recipient facing criminal charges.
Inflation numbers sit at the very heart of so much of our lives, and the latest figures brought little comfort.
The future of a mothballed $400m Covid centre in one Aussie state hangs in the balance of a new study, with plans to reshape it to accommodate a growing crisis.
A Gnowangerup farmer who revolutionised the way WA farmers accessed crop protection products has been honoured for his service to the industry, decades after the idea first came to him.
Amy Towers
American West Metals is closing in on development at its Storm copper play in Canada, with a near-complete prefeasibility study and permitting underway as it vies to become the country’s next copper producer.
Andrew Todd
A wildly popular Aussie activewear brand is on the brink of financial collapse, with the business falling into receivership amid financial pressures.
The eight and 11-storey complex project has not proven popular among local residents, with 503 of the 614 submissions received during public consultation earlier this year opposing the development.
Liam Murphy
Australia’s sharemarket has closed higher, despite inflation data that simultaneously makes a rate cut more likely and an August rate hike a near certainty.
Cameron Micallef
Construction of a staircase allowing easy access from the Albany Marina into the water is underway, with the project expected to be completed in the coming weeks.
Melissa Sheil
True North Copper has stitched fresh scale into its Qld Cloncurry copper play, folding Mongoose into Taipan, chasing Wallace North growth and lining up a prefeasibility study as a return to production looms.
Doug Bright
WorkSafe says AR Constructions (WA) Pty Ltd has pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the heath and safety of rigger Adrian Fariña Pacheco, who was killed at a Malaga construction site by a falling steel column.
Sean Smith
Gold major Gold Fields has popped up on the register with a 5.33% stake in Augustus Minerals, taking a strategic bet on the explorer’s large-scale Music Well gold project in WA’s prolific Eastern Goldfields.
Murray Ward
