February
Cook’s message for V’landys: WA doesn’t need the NRL
WA premier says NRL brass must understand rugby league is a relative minnow west of the Nullarbor, and his government won’t bend over backwards to secure a team.
I went jogging with WA’s premier to talk GST and Japanese house music
Triathlons have taught WA Premier Roger Cook a bit about resilience – something he says is required in politics and leadership.
‘See what’s going on up there’: WA premier invites teals to Pilbara
Roger Cook will ask all re-elected teal MPs to tour the mineral-rich Pilbara as he seeks to head off potential environmental reforms from federal Labor.
Frustrated Woodside wants to step on the gas
CEO Meg O’Neill is optimistic about a big future for oil and gas projects despite lacklustre share price and contradictory messages from governments and investors.
WA households handed $5000 for batteries in election cash splash
Western Australian households will be provided $5000 battery rebates in the latest election pitch from the cashed-up Labor government.
WA’s coal cliff: Industry warns of looming power shortfall
Western Australia’s transition away from coal will require substantial upgrades to its energy infrastructure, but industry says the state is fast running out of time.
Indigenous rock art report at centre of North West Shelf delay
A rift has opened between the West Australian and Albanese governments over the deferral of a decision to extend Woodside’s huge gas project off the state’s coast.
Australia still betting on rare earths
The Albanese government hoped for a new resources boom in new critical minerals projects and processing. There’s been a hard reckoning since, but the dream still lives for Iluka Resources and others.
D-Day looms for Woodside’s massive North West Shelf gas project
It’s either crucial to energy security, or a climate disaster in the making. Labor will have to decide whether to let the LNG operation run another 50 years.
Running the rule over four years of total Labor dominance
With a parliamentary majority and a budget bottom line any politician would envy, critics say WA Premier Roger Cook has missed a chance to embark on meaningful reform.
WA election campaign kicks off with personal attacks
Writs have been issued in a state election that will be a crucial test for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton possibly just weeks before the federal poll.
WA Labor calls for federal support to revive BP green fuel project
The Albanese government must do more to support Western Australia’s fledgling biofuels industry, Premier Roger Cook says.
January
WA Labor premier calls on Dutton to find way forward on nature laws
Roger Cook says the Albanese government must ramp up engagement with the state’s mining giants over a set of divisive environmental reforms.
Albanese is stuck in fast-moving Trump world
The failure of the government to generate any excitement for its agenda is as alarming for Labor stalwarts and MPs as it is encouraging for the Coalition.
WA premier lobbies federal Labor to kill EPA, miners cry foul
Roger Cook is pushing his federal counterparts to scrap a renewed move for a federal Environment Protection Agency – ‘If it’s not good for WA, I’m against it’.
WA premier warns east coast latte sippers over ‘nature positive’ laws
Tanya Plibersek’s renewed attempt to create a federal Environment Protection Agency inflames tensions in WA, a state that will be critical at the election.
Federal and state spending part of inflation problem: economists
West Australian Premier Roger Cook publicly called out the RBA governor this week on sustained interest rate pain, but some economists say he’s part of the problem.
December 2024
Critical minerals manufacturing dream tempered by harsh reality
Falling prices mean Australia’s ambitions to develop the industry and downstream processing are on pause. Is this a waiting game, or is it all over?
Mining rivals join forces on green iron project
BHP, Rio Tinto and BlueScope have all agreed to develop Australia’s largest iron-making electric smelting furnace, the NeoSmelt pilot facility, in Western Australia.
WA government green lights Woodside’s North West Shelf extension
The West Australian government has given Woodside the green light to extend the life of its North West Shelf gas processing facility.