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Perth business

December 2024

The Royal Automobile Club of WA has been serving Western Australians for over 115 years.

Royal Automobile Club of WA calls in Barrenjoey for strategic review

Royal automobile clubs are hot property as three major brands across Australia hit the auction block.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

March 2024

OncoRes CEO Katharine Giles in the company’s Perth HQ.

‘More than mining’: WA med-tech sector message to local investors

WA medical ventures no longer limited to interstate or overseas investors for viability, says OncoRes breast cancer tech innovator Katherine Giles.

  • Tom Rabe

September 2023

Qantas has it own international terminal in Perth which it uses for London flights but the WA government wants it to join other airlines at Airport Central.

Qantas boss Vanessa Hudson urged to fix Perth flights dispute

The WA tourism minister wants Qantas to sort out a long-running dispute over terminals at Perth Airport.

  • Jenny Wiggins and Tom Rabe

July 2023

Wafex owner Craig Musson says demand for his company’s flowers has dropped in the past 8 weeks.

‘Canary in the goldmine’: WA economy shows signs of tightening

Riding high for years on the back of a booming resources sector, the good times in Western Australia appear to be waning as consumer demand begins to weaken.

  • Tom Rabe

May 2023

Jemma Green, co-founder of Power Ledger.

Power Ledger-linked crypto exchange files for bankruptcy

The SEC cited Bittrex’s decision to allow trading in crypto tokens from Perth-based Power Ledger, while alleging it was operating an illegal stock exchange.

  • Aaron Patrick
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April 2023

Tensions between Perth Airport and Qantas are escalating.

Qantas stalls on shift to Perth’s Airport Central

The national carrier is pushing back against demands from the WA government and Perth Airport to hurry up and shift its flights to a central precinct.

  • Jenny Wiggins

March 2023

Andrew Irvine, head of NAB’s business banking division.

Confidence and conditions at odds in business banking

NAB says WA will give the Reserve Bank governor some cause for consternation.

  • Ayesha de Kretser

June 2022

Rockcliffe owner Dr Steve Hall says the winery has underperformed in its home state of WA, but this provides an opportunity for growth.

Geologist turned WA winery owner says China market lost for good

Steve Hall’s winery, Rockcliffe, was decimated by China’s tariffs on Australian wine, but is hopeful he can replace it with growth in his own backyard of WA.

  • Michael Bennet
Nigel Satterley is facing being expelled from the WA Liberal Party, which he says he has no issues with given its failure to listen to its base.

‘The clan is still in full control’: Why the Liberals lost WA

Nigel Satterley, a Rich Lister and Liberal Party member, is so dismayed he thinks the Liberals could become a spent force in the state as its base and the business community turn elsewhere.

  • Michael Bennet
Consolidation is underway in Western Australia’s nickel industry.

IGO snares Western Areas amid brutal lithium rout

IGO has finally snared Western Areas after shareholders backed the $1.3 billion deal, as the miner was swept up in a nasty sell-off of lithium stocks.

  • Michael Bennet
Peter Fogarty, who owns some of Australia’s biggest wine brands including Evans & Tate, says there’s been a “paradigm shift” in consumers’ spending since COVID-19.

Rottnest resort developer upbeat amid ‘paradigm shift’ in spending

Peter Fogarty says he can deliver a $40 million resort on Perth’s Rottnest Island on budget and that a ‘paradigm shift’ in what consumers will pay bodes well.

  • Michael Bennet

May 2022

Kate Chaney with her uncle and former Liberal Party deputy leader Fred at her election event in Claremont on Saturday night.

Teal Chaney vows to push Labor on stronger climate action

After sealing the seat of Curtin, independent Kate Chaney confirmed she will push Labor to set more ambitious carbon emission reduction targets.

  • Michael Bennet
The True North is one of several cruise ships to recently experience positive COVID-19 cases off WA.

Infected passengers on luxury WA cruise ship sent to shore

The True North, a luxury ‘adventure yacht’ priced at up to $35,000 a head, is the latest operator to have COVID-positive cases on board, choppering guests to Broome.

  • Michael Bennet
Rebecca Tomkinson has been named the next CEO of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia.

WA peak mining body appoints CEO with no industry experience

WA’s peak resources lobby group has appointed Rebecca Tomkinson its next CEO, again shunning direct prior mining industry experience.

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  • Michael Bennet
Ausdrill managing director Ron Sayers in 2008.

Mining industry titan Ron Sayers dies

Ausdrill founder and mining services industry titan Ron Sayers has died aged 70, sparking a wave of tributes from across the sector. 

  • Michael Bennet
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Mining and Aboriginal heritage can co-exist, leaders say

Aboriginal people do not want to shut down mining but are calling for a greater say on their country, following Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge scandal. But leaders say miners must lift their game.

  • Michael Bennet
Aura’s Troy Zafer, left, with former Macquarie and Gresham banker Michael Ashforth, who sits on Aura’s advisory board.

Why this start-up combined cashbacks, micro-investing and giving back

Aura, a start-up that counts former investment banker Michael Ashforth and AFL great John Worsfold as advisers, is looking to take on the big loyalty players.

  • Michael Bennet

April 2022

Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson says WA’s hospital system can handle an easing of COVID-19 restrictions.

WA dumps masks as COVID-19 rules further eased

Amber-Jade Sanderson says the state’s hospital system can handle a further easing of rules, but the AMA WA is concerned about the removal of its mask mandate.

  • Michael Bennet
Scott Morrison addresses the Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA on Tuesday.

Miners call for more migrants to deal with skills shortage

Miners welcome the focus of the main political parties on their sector, but say they need to lift immigration and make it easier to hire.

  • Michael Bennet and Mark Ludlow
Burgundy CEO Peter Ravenscroft, right, and master craftsman Richard How Kim Kam.

Burgundy bets on vertical integration in ultra-luxury diamonds play

The boss of the WA miner hopes jewellers will soon be selling diamonds mined, cut, polished and branded by the company to the rich for up to $10 million a pop.

  • Michael Bennet

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