November
Is it third time lucky for this little-known manufacturing billionaire?
Vikas Rambal is thinking big. After trying his hand at two fertiliser plants in Western Australia, the businessman is plotting his largest project yet.
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- Jennifer Hewett
October
Gina Rinehart buys Peter Dutton’s table for Perth party
The list of things the opposition leader has to be thankful for Rinehart keeps getting longer.
- Mark Di Stefano
Pilbara Minerals cuts lithium output, suspends plant
The miner is scaling back to endure the lithium price slump, cutting annual output and icing operations at its Ngungaju facility.
- Elouise Fowler
Roy Hill’s record year provides Rinehart with $2.8b payday
The iron ore producer almost tripled its dividend, translating to a big pay day for Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart.
- Mark Wembridge
BHP sells iron ore at weakest price in four years amid quality fears
The fall has led the market to worry that the country’s largest mining company may have similar challenges to its Pilbara rival Rio Tinto.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Mining
Why Australian miners are feeling anxious
The market and the miners were primed for good news from Beijing but they didn’t get it. Now it’s back to basics – or bids like Rio Tinto’s for Arcadium.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Iron ore
Gina Rinehart slashes plans for next big mine as ESG factors hit
The billionaire businesswoman has dramatically scaled back the proposed Mulga Downs iron ore project by 40 per cent to overcome environmental concerns.
- Peter Ker
September
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Gina Rinehart continues her father’s tax crusade
After years railing against the burden of government regulations, the iron ore billionaire is winning support for another key policy passion – lower taxes for northern Australians.
- Tony Boyd
- Opinion
- Mining
Why Australia’s miners are so alarmed by Albanese
The powerhouse industry is aghast at the government’s policies on industrial relations and environmental changes and has broken diplomatic cover to say so.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Sketch
You want a fight, you’ve got one, miners tell Albanese
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s speech to the miners was a veiled jibe, but Minerals Council of Australia boss Tania Constable went out-and-out hostile.
- Ronald Mizen
MinRes investigates jumbo iron ore road train rollovers
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources has been hit by two rollovers of fully loaded iron ore road trains as it races to finish a dedicated haul road.
- Brad Thompson
Undermine mining at your peril, industry warns PM
The miners say the government has incited conflict and made the industry less competitive with its industrial relations changes.
- Phillip Coorey and Ronald Mizen
August
- Opinion
- Industrial relations
Why the Pilbara is not going to explode in a wave of strikes
Getting the majority of workers to back a new wave of unionism in the Pilbara might be harder than either side thinks.
- Scott Riches
Slow approvals are risking the next mining boom: report
State and federal environmental approval processes are jeopardising tens of billions of dollars of investment in green steel and renewable energy infrastructure, experts warn.
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Opinion
Unions have been handed the keys to the Pilbara
Unions will seek pay without productivity as the Albanese government hands over control of Australia’s resources powerhouse.
- Tania Constable
July
Private credit crackdown; Tension at Olympics; Musk dares doubters
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
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- Energy
Labor’s hydrogen dream stalls as Fortescue slims down H2 vision
Fortescue will cut 700 jobs and slow its push into green hydrogen in a blow to the Albanese government’s plan to make Australia a hydrogen superpower supported by more than $8 billion of taxpayer funded incentives.
- Peter Ker and Angela Macdonald-Smith
BHP breaks iron ore export record, promises copper lift
The mining giant could raise copper production by 10 per cent in the year ahead as its most important commodities offset nickel and coal woes.
- Peter Ker
Rod Carnegie: corporate giant felled at the final hurdle
Sir Rod Carnegie soared across the corporate sky in the ’70s and ’80s but was thwarted in his attempt to secure full Australian local control of mining giant CRA.
- Andrew Clark
Tributes for Rod Carnegie, driving force for corporate nationalism
Sir Rod Carnegie, who had a major influence over Australian mining, business and national economic policy in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91.
- Andrew Clark