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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

Aerial view of the BHP mine Olympic Dam at Roxby Downs, South Australia.

Activist sees end of BHP dual-list

BHP’s recent ATO settlement should clear the way to end its dual-listed structure, Elliott Management says..

Paul Garvey

Business

A worker at a nickel-processing plant in Sorowako, Indonesia, March 1, 2012. PHOTO: REUTERS

Sabre-rattling over tariffs slashes nickel

Nickel prices had been expected to flourish but the trade war between the US and China has thrown a spanner in the works.

Paul Garvey

UpdatedMining & Energy

This is an undated company photograph of a Rio Tinto Group ship picking up copper from the Escondida mine in Chile, provided to the media on Jan. 21, 2008. Source: Rio Tinto Group via Bloomberg News

Rio eyeing production record

Rio’s chief says the miner’s ‘value over volume’ mantra is still intact, even as the giant sets its sights on a production record.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

Woodside's Pluto offshore gas platform, Pluto LNG Project, Western Australia.

Woodside sale to secure payout

Woodside Petroleum is closing in on the sale of equity stakes in its Scarborough and Pluto development projects.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

24/01/2018Former WA premier Colin Barnett as he packs up his office after 27 years in politics, photographed in Cottesloe.pic Colin Murty The Australian.

East-west gas pipeline no pipe dream despite report: Barnett

An advocate for a cross-country gas pipeline says he still believes the project has a future, despite a study finding otherwise.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

Graham Kerr, chief executive officer of South32 Ltd., poses for a photograph following an event hosted by the Melbourne Mining Club in Melbourne, Australia, on Thursday, June 2, 2016. South32, the diversified miner that's cutting its global workforce on lower commodity prices, says its loss-making and strike-threatened Colombian nickel asset must deliver a plan to return to profits in the coming fiscal year to remain in operation. Photographer: Mark Dadswell/Bloomberg

South32 coal offers flood in South32 coal offers flood in

South32 has been inundated with offers for its South African thermal coal business.

Paul Garvey

Markets

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May reacting as Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn informs the MPs that he has tabled a vote of no confidence in the Government in the House of Commons in London on January 15, 2019, after MPs voted to reject the government's Brexit deal. - British lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to reject the EU divorce deal struck between London and Brussels, in a historic vote that leave Brexit hanging in the balance. (Photo by HO / PRU / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

UK-exposed companies relaxed about Brexit chaos

Britain’s Brexit plans chaos has been countered by a relative calm for Australian-listed companies with UK exposures.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

Woodside move on LNG plant

Woodside will push ahead with studies over its proposed Scarborough LNG plant without the financial support of BHP.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

Supplied image of Stanmore Coal for GOQLD campaign.

Stanmore suitor refuses to lift bid

A squabble has broken out between independent experts Grant Thornton and BDO over the valuation of Stanmore Coal.

Paul Garvey

Mining & Energy

13/02/2016: Evolution Mining executive chairman Jake Klein ahead of the release of their first-half financial results. Evolution is expected to show it is generating plenty of cash from its recent acquisitions and the recent tailwind of higher gold prices. Photographed at their offices in Sydney on Monday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Gold rush fear after $14bn deal

There are fears history could be repeating itself after Newmont Mining announced a $US10bn takeover of rival Goldcorp.

Paul Garvey

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