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Paul Garvey is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades’ experience in newsrooms around Australia and the world. He is currently the senior reporter in The Australian’s WA bureau, covering politics, courts, billionaires and everything in between. He has previously written for The Wall Street Journal in New York, The Australian Financial Review in Melbourne, and for The Australian from Hong Kong before returning to his native Perth. He was the WA Journalist of the Year in 2024 and is a two-time winner of The Beck Prize for political journalism.

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Mining & Energy

Investors win in delisting row

Thousands of small shareholders in iron ore play Flinders Mines have scored a big early victory against its delisting plans.

Paul Garvey

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A loaded coal train is seen passing through the outskirts of Singleton, in the NSW Hunter Valley region, on Sunday, April 22, 2018. (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

Transport counts flood costs

Aurizon, Incitec Pivot and Resolute Mining all detailing impacts from the Queensland floods.

Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVEBusiness

An employee holds a two hundred and fifty gram gold bar in this arranged photograph at Solar Capital Gold Zrt. in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, March 10, 2016. Gold advanced to the highest level in a year after the European Central Bank indicated it wouldn't cut interest rates further, boosting the euro and making dollar-denominated bullion less expensive for investors. Photographer: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

Bellevue keeps eyes on prize

One of the Australian gold plays most frequently touted as a potential acquisition target has quietly appointed defence advisers.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

Karen Wood, chief people officer at BHP Biliton.

South32 chair bolsters BHP link

South32’s appointment of Karen Wood as its new chairman has resulted in the company reinforcing its historical ties to BHP.

Paul Garvey

Financial Services

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the press after a meeting with the President of the European Council at the European Council in Brussels on February 7, 2019. (Photo by Aris Oikonomou / AFP)

UK firms face Brexit licence hit

Hundreds of foreign financial services in Australia are at risk of finding themselves without valid licences after Brexit.

Paul Garvey

Financial Services

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May talks to journalists after her meeting with European Council President Donald Tusk at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

We can deal with ‘no deal’: ASIC

Financial regulators say they have plans to navigate a ‘no deal’ Brexit, but warn individual firms must have their licensing right.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

TOPSHOT - Firefighters recover the body of a victim of Friday's dam collapse at an iron-ore mine belonging to Brazil's giant mining company Vale near the town of Brumadinho, state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil, on January 28, 2019. - The search for survivors intensified on Monday, on its fourth day, with the support of an Israeli contingent, after communities were devastated by a dam collapse that killed at least 60 people -- with hopes fading for 292 still missing. A barrier at the site burst on Friday, spewing millions of tons of treacherous sludge and engulfing buildings, vehicles and roads. (Photo by Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP)

Mine closures test giants’ restraint

Australia’s iron ore miners will face the strongest test of their supply discipline after Vale was forced to suspend its operations.

Paul Garvey

M&A

With more than 80 percent of pets over the age of three are suffering from some sort of dental disease, experts are warning dog owners to brush up on their pet's dental health. To help combat this, Petbarn is joining forces with Greencross Vets this Dental Health Month to raise awareness around pet dental issues. Maggie the 2 year old labradoodle prefers to brush her own teeth. Picture: David Caird

TPG’s pet project succeeds

Some last-minute uncertainty failed to derail TPG’s $675 million takeover of pet care group Greencross.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

A road is blocked after a dam collapsed near Brumadinho, Brazil, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. Brazilian mining company Vale SA said it didnâ€™t yet have information on deaths or injuries at the dam but said that tailings have reached the community of Vila Ferteco. (Leo Drumond/Nitro via AP)

Miners soar as gold and iron ore prices rise

Australia’s mining stocks are enjoying a stellar start to the year, with Fortescue Metals and the nation’s gold miners soaring.

Paul Garvey

Business

PIRATE: Coal at Port Waratah loader at Newcastle docks ready to be shipped abroad. Mining exports machinery

King coal now tops export earners

Coal has overtaken iron ore as the nation’s biggest export earner.

Paul Garvey

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