This Month
- Exclusive
- Immigration
Queensland to cop skilled migrant cut amid boost to smaller states
Queensland will be the only Australian state to suffer a reduction in the number of skilled migrant allocations this financial year.
- Tom Rabe
June
- Analysis
- China relations
Billions of reasons why Li was made welcome in the West
Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s visit underlined the importance of Western Australia to Australia’s trade relationship with China.
- Brad Thompson
May
Plibersek’s new environment laws friendless
Business, conservationists, the Greens and key crossbenchers have all criticised Labor’s plans for a new Environment Protection Agency.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Critical minerals
Why Dutton risks losing WA sentiment
Peter Dutton’s rejection of production tax credits for critical minerals processing is risking support in several must-win seats in Western Australia.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
Perth’s high-flyers turn out to toast Financial Review’s Mining Summit
The state’s political and business leaders gathered at Perth’s Wildflower for the second The Australian Financial Review Mining Summit dinner.
- Updated
Gas to firm renewables until nuclear is ready: Dutton
Peter Dutton has countered claims his plans for nuclear energy were a front to keep coal in the system for longer.
- Phillip Coorey, Tom Rabe and Gus McCubbing
How we can take on Tesla, according to WA’s Roger Cook
WA Premier Roger Cook insists his state’s nickel crisis should not deter major miners from pushing ahead with higher social and environmental standards.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- Mining Summit
Cook says magnetite will make WA the ‘California of Australia’
WA’s future in resources wasn’t just linked to battery minerals, but also to a different variety of iron ore largely overlooked by our mining industry: magnetite.
- Tom Rabe
Critical minerals boost from $566m plan to fully map Australia
Deposits of critical minerals and rare earths badly needed for the development of renewable energy technologies will be mapped, Anthony Albanese says.
- Tom McIlroy
Minister was warned about radicalised teen before police shooting
A 16-year-old school boy shot dead by police in Perth over the weekend after a stabbing incident was part of a state-run deradicalisation program.
- Tom Rabe
April
WA tells energy giants to ‘use it or lose it’ on gas fields
Companies such as Chevron and Santos with “pending” applications to retain licences for undeveloped gas fields could feel pressure from Canberra to get moving.
- Tom Rabe
‘Take a chill pill’: Graeme Samuel urges calm on environment law delay
Former competition tsar Graeme Samuel has urged conservation groups to “take a chill pill”, and for miners to stop talking “rubbish” on plans to overhaul federal environment laws.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Environment revamp on hold after WA alarm
The Albanese government has delayed indefinitely the overhaul of laws designed to protect the environment after lobbying from WA Premier Roger Cook.
- Phillip Coorey and Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- Environmental protection
Internal Labor group chides Plibersek on nature-positive ‘vacuum’
A Labor green group says reforms to environmental laws are an Albanese “election commitment” on an issue Labor members have campaigned for nearly a decade.
- Jacob Greber and Tom Rabe
WA warns Albanese’s ‘nature positive’ will extend far beyond mining
Western Australian Premier Roger Cook says a wide range of industries in his state have raised major concerns with him over the planned reforms.
- Tom Rabe
March
Chilean lithium giant flags ‘aggressive’ Australian expansion
The chief executive of Chilean lithium giant SQM has described Western Australia as the next global “lithium bowl”.
- Tom Rabe
February
PM says Aussie nickel will prevail, Nats demand climate policy relief
Anthony Albanese says Australian nickel miners will ultimately have a competitive advantage over environmentally-unfriendly Indonesian competitors.
- Phillip Coorey, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
Labor plans tax credits to help nickel miners
The Albanese government is fast-tracking a system of production tax credits to try to protect the ailing nickel mining industry.
- Phillip Coorey, Brad Thompson and Hans van Leeuwen
‘Kissed on the arse by a rainbow’: Economist rubbishes WA’s GST claim
Claims by the Western Australian treasurer that major mining projects would be jeopardised by any reduction in its GST payments have been rubbished by a leading economist.
- Tom Rabe
- Updated
- Mining
BHP hit in $5.4b nickel wipeout, WA plans royalty relief
WA has challenged the federal government to save close to 3000 jobs and billions of dollars worth of growth projects in the nickel industry, after BHP wrote down the value of its nickel business to zero.
- Brad Thompson, Peter Ker and Tom Rabe