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The Albemarle lithium hydroxide plant at Kemerton in WA.

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?

  • Jennifer Hewett
The Neosmelt project will be constructed on the site of BHP’s old nickel refinery in Kwinana.

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.

  • Tom Rabe and Peter Ker
The WA govenrment has approved the extension of the North West Shelf plant near Karratha.

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.

  • Tom Rabe
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek (left), West Australian Premier Roger Cook and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Plibersek’s EPA a threat to mining, claims WA premier

An unapologetic Roger Cook said: “We’ve made our position in relation Nature Positive absolutely clear.”

  • Tom Rabe and Phillip Coorey

Govt has helped pay for more than 100k flights to one FIFO town in WA

A West Australian government scheme designed to subsidise regional flights to Perth for country residents has ballooned to quadruple its original cost.

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  • Tom Rabe
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November

Tanya Plibersek, Roger Cook and Anthony Albanese.

Why Albanese kneecapped Plibersek

The PM, pushed by WA’s Roger Cook, made a captain’s call to deny Peter Dutton the chance to paint Labor as anti-WA or anti-mining.

  • Andrew Tillett
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Rather than throwing grenades across the Nullarbor, WA Premier Roger Cook is approaching negotiations with Canberra differently to his predecessor.

How the WA premier became Labor’s top influencer

Roger Cook is not the same grenade thrower as his predecessor, but the WA premier is quietly going about getting his state exactly what it wants.

  • Tom Rabe

October

From left: Labor MP Anne Aly, Woodside chairman Richard Goyder, Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill, Albanese, Jodie Heydon, CEO of HanRoy Sanjiv Manchanda with his partner.

Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton gather in the court of Kerry Stokes

The Telethon Ball held in Perth on Saturday was the annual pilgrimage for politicians and business figures.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Woodside chief executive Meg O’Neill says WA’s decision to hand responsibility for policing greenhouse emissions to the Commonwealth is “eminently sensible”.

Woodside boss urges states to join WA in ending emissions regulation

State governments should consider leaving the policing of greenhouse emissions to Canberra, Meg O’Neill says.

  • Tom Rabe and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined Premier Steven Miles on the Gold Coast to campaign for the re-election of the Queensland Labor government.

Why there’s no free lunch in government

The Albanese government is still struggling to break out of a post-Voice gloom, with new policies failing to stop the lingering sense of drift permeating Canberra.

  • Jennifer Hewett
New homes in Wyndham Vale, on Melbourne’s fringe.

Name and shame plan to speed housing approvals won’t work, states say

Victoria, Queensland, WA and SA have rejected the idea of publishing the housing approval records of local authorities.

  • Michael Bleby, Tom Rabe and James Hall
Australian Business Growth Fund chief executive Anthony Healy says WA is the most attractive state for investment in the country.

Fund sees riches in the ‘Abu Dhabi of Australia’

Investors searching for “favourable tailwinds” should be looking west, according to Anthony Healy, the chief executive of a $500 million, government-backed fund.

  • Tom Rabe

September

Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison.

Chris Ellison defends nepotism at MinRes

The Mineral Resources boss has given a “rare media interview”, outlining his company’s zeal for hiring the children of employees.

  • Mark Di Stefano
The BCA dinner is It is also the opportunity for the Prime Minister to take on the big economic reform challenges, such as tax reform and boosting productivity called for by Bill Kelty.

Not pulling the climate trigger shows needle Labor must thread

Anthony Albanese has overruled Tanya Plibersek on a deal with the Greens because he doesn’t want to hang a lantern over what a Labor-Greens minority government might entail for the mining industry, especially in WA.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier of Western Australia Roger Cook.

WA vows to keep heat on PM over green laws

WA Premier Roger Cook says his state won’t stop lobbying Canberra to water down environmental protection laws.

  • Tom Rabe
WA Premier Roger Cook grew up playing both rugby union and league, and has taken a personal interest in securing an NRL team for Perth.

Perth Bears: WA premier’s personal push for NRL in Aussie rules state

Roger Cook grew up as a West Australian in love with rugby league, so is intent on a top-flight team landing west of the Nullarbor.

  • Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and WA Premier Roger Cook at Mt Lawley Senior High School in Perth on Tuesday.

PM’s secret dinner at mining HQ

Anthony Albanese dined with Chris Ellison and Meg O’Neill on Sunday after the former won a charity prize.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Collie, Western Australia on Sunday.

AUKUS jobs and Korean carbon planned for Labor’s big week in WA

Anthony Albanese’s bid to woo Western Australia includes a cabinet meeting and a swathe of events and announcements throughout the week.

  • Ronald Mizen

August

Woodside Energy’s Browse project is off the coast of Broome. It has already scrapped plans for an onshore LNG processing facility.

Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat

The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.

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  • Ben Potter, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson

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