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Almost half of young Australian workers are planning to take an early career break.

NEWSPremiumHow Gen Z workers are rewriting the rules

Australian employers are facing a loyalty crisis, as Gen Z workers are rethinking what success, stability and commitment means in the modern workplace.

Andrew Hedgman

Ardea Resources managing director and chief executive Andrew Penkethman.

Government backingPremiumMajor project status renewed for Kalgoorlie Nickel Project

The Federal Government has renewed the major project status of Ardea Resources’ $3.1 billion Kalgoorlie Nickel Project for another three years.

Neil Watkinson

The Santa open pit mine at Vault Minerals’ Mount Monger operations south-east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Quarterly resultPremiumVault Minerals makes solid start to current financial year

Vault Minerals has made a solid start to the current financial year, with its three operations across the Goldfields and Murchison producing 92,087 ounces of gold in the September quarter.

Neil Watkinson

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have recorded their largest weekly percentage gains since August. (AP PHOTO)

MarketsPremiumWall St notches record closing highs on cool inflation

Indexes up: Dow 1.01 per cent, S&P 500 0.79 per cent, Nasdaq 1.15 per cent; Alphabet jumps; September US consumer prices rise slightly less than expected.

Stephen Culp

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BusinessPremiumBoutique builder goes into liquidation

Sydney boutique builder Lifestyle Builds has gone into liquidation after 15 years in business, owing creditors more than $300,000.

Emma Kirk

Housing Australia chairwoman Carol Austin will resign two years after being appointed to the role of leading the Commonwealth agency tasked with improving the nation’s housing crisis.

PoliticsPremiumChair tasked to fix housing crisis resigns

The woman leading an agency tasked with fixing Australia’s housing crisis has resigned weeks before a parliamentary inquiry.

Emma Kirk

Business - Former UK deputy PM Dominic Raab. He is now chairing a specialist global committee on rare earths and security.

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Taxpayers to front bill for minerals expansion: Ex-minister

If Western countries fail to break China’s stranglehold on critical minerals, manufacturers of everything from mobile phones to car batteries would find their business model ‘totally torpedoed’.

Katina Curtis and Caitlyn Rintoul

RPC Surface Treatment Pty Ltd company was fined $975,000 in Perth Magistrates Court.

Courts & JusticePremiumWA’s highest ever work safety penalty for tragic teen death

A Welshpool business has been fined almost $1 million over the horrific crushing death of a teenage worker.

Rebecca Le May

Invest and Trade WA Illustration: Don Lindsay

Herd on the TerracePremiumIt’s choppy waters for Cyclone Metals

Herd on the Terrace: A storm has been brewing in the boardroom of ASX junior Cyclone Metals. Plus — It’s one map, two cities, and a State Government mix up.

Herd on the Terrace

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MarketsPremiumASX slips on Trump’s latest move

Australian shares have drifted lower as investors eye crucial US-China talks, while energy stocks surge on fresh Russian sanctions.

Cameron Micallef

Ben Wyatt is a former WA treasurer turned board member.

MiningBen Wyatt promoted at Rio Tinto

Former WA treasurer Ben Wyatt has been promoted in a reshuffle of Rio Tinto’s board that has seen the number of directors fall from 14 to ten.

Adrian Rauso

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… ASF Group Limited.

ASX Runners of the Week: ASF Group, Vectus, Hawk Resources and Thor

The Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Investment house ASF Group, which sent the market nuts after entering the crypto space, rocketing 4900% before the ASX pulled the plug.

Andrew Todd

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Track mounted RC drilling at Kula Gold’s Mt Palmer gold project near Marvel Loch in Western Australia’s Southern Cross region.

Kula Gold lights up 3km Southern Cross gold trend

Kula Gold has unearthed a potentially 3km-long gold corridor at its Mt Palmer project in WA, hitting 8m at 2.76g/t from 24m including 1m at 16.95g/t gold, as deeper RC and diamond drilling ramps up.

James Pearson

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ChatGPT is a lousy personal shopper - but it’s learning

Traffic volume to e-commerce sites from chatbot conversations is around 200 times smaller than from organic Google searches, but the trend is changing.

Dave Lee

China's major goal over the next five years is to "significantly" raise household consumption. (AP PHOTO)

TradePremiumChina to raise household consumption 'significantly'

China's top leaders have pledged to spur stronger domestic demand over the next five years.

Staff Writers

Mt Gibson's Koolan Island project in the Kimberley.

MiningCommentsPremiumKimberley iron ore mine to close, 450 jobs to go

Mount Gibson Iron is cutting 450 jobs after the early closure of mining operations at the Koolan Island iron ore mine off the Kimberley.

Sean Smith

PLS chief executive Dale Henderson

MiningCommentsPremiumLithium kingpin warns of price floors for ‘wrong’ projects

The boss of the ASX’s largest lithium pure play has warned the Federal Government that taxpayer-funded price floors for critical minerals could prop up low-quality projects.

Adrian Rauso

RC drilling at Cgae Cgae in Botswana. Noronex Limited’s chief geologist Tony Chisnall (left) and country manager Gaba Chinyepi.

Noronex fires up rigs for Botswana copper push with South32

Noronex has kicked off a 3,000-metre drilling blitz at its Cgae Cgae copper project in Botswana under its expanded alliance with South32, targeting new basement-hosted copper systems beneath the Kalahari sands.

James Pearson

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The State Government has celebrated the US’ critical minerals deal.

MiningPremiumAlcoa has big role in US critical mineral deal

The State Government has celebrated the US’ critical minerals deal which will see $US200 million invested into Alcoa’s Wagerup gallium plant. 

Craig Duncan

Michele Bullock said changes to supply, tax laws and skilled labour were all needed to help Australia’s housing woes. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

FINANCEPremiumWhat's really driving soaring house prices

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has given her take on soaring house prices and what could be done to fix the issue.

Cameron Micallef

Australian superannuation returns have surpassed $1 trillion. NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

FINANCEPremiumHuge new average superannuation balance

The average Australian superannuation balance is on the rise thanks to a change introduced in July 2021 and an insane amount of money in investment returns.

Cameron Micallef

South Korea's Kospi surged nearly 2.6 per cent to a fresh record. (EPA PHOTO)

BusinessPremiumAsian stocks mostly higher on US-China trade hopes

South Korean and Chinese stocks finished the week on a high off the back of news that US President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

Staff Writers

Workers will stop delivering money to banks, retailers and ATMs as a pay dispute escalates. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Workplace MattersPremiumStrike scratches cash delivery ahead of spring racing

Workers delivering cash are on strike ahead of the spring racing carnival, which they say will interrupt money being transported to banks, retailers and ATMs.

Rachael Ward

Spring Gully Foods, one of Australia’s most beloved family-owned food makers, has been plunged into administration. Supplied

NEWSPremiumIconic Aussie food brand goes belly up

After decades in Australian kitchens, a fourth-generation family-owned food business is in financial turmoil, leaving employees and creditors in limbo.

Andrew Hedgman