As Senior Editor at Business News, Mark Beyer has a wide-ranging brief to research, analyse and report on the issues, trends and personalities affecting the business community in Western Australia.
Mr Beyer has 35 years' career experience, primarily in business journalism. He joined Business News in 2002 and previously worked for The Australian Financial Review and The West Australian, and also has public relations and corporate affairs experience.
Before becoming a journalist, he was an economist with the Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra.
The likely new owner of the Perth Wildcats is an Edith Cowan University graduate who started his working life at Telstra before building a global tech success story.
UPDATED: Anglo American has rejected BHP’s request for extra time to finalise a takeover bid, saying BHP’s latest proposal did not address high complexity and risk.
In this podcast, Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Forrest property buy; resource conferences; BHP; Anglo-American; Carolyn Turnbull's new job; Feral Brewing's new owner; and preview the next magazine.
New financial reports show a handful of Aboriginal groups gaining more income from mining royalties but others going backwards, while the sector as a whole remains the poor cousin.
Anglo American has rejected a third takeover proposal from BHP but left open the possibility of a deal by agreeing to a one-week extension to the bid deadline.
The Telethon Kids institute was the big winner from the state government’s latest round of medical research funding, securing nearly half of the $25 million on offer.
A specialist lender backed by Australia’s big banks is expected to gain control of Perth company Total Green Recycling after the failure of its parent Scipher Technologies.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the federal budget’s mining support, Santos and Quintis job cuts, live sheep exports, property development approvals, NWQ Capital Management, and Clough's journey under Peter Bennett.
Western Australian cotton growers could be disadvantaged by a multinational company’s proposed takeover of the country’s largest producer, the competition regulator has warned.
Andrew Forrest has led a chorus of industry support for new policies subsidising critical minerals and hydrogen projects, but the measures have failed to garner bipartisan backing.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the state budget; federal budget; the Prime Minister's Perth visit; critical minerals; the future of gas; a media stoush; 40under40; and a mag preview.
Ratings agency S&P Global Ratings has expressed surprise that the state budget will dip into a cash deficit this year but otherwise was effusive about the health of WA’s finances.
Surging investment in resources projects has bolstered economic growth this year while in future years Treasury expects housing and government investment to be the key drivers.
The state government has forecast continued budget surpluses but behind the headline numbers lie big “cash deficits” and a large increase in state debt.
The West Perth company says the proceeds, in tandem with cash on hand, will fully fund the equity component of its $1.3 billion Hemi gold project in the Pilbara.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Business News' inaugural WA Rich List, house prices and interest rates, renewable sector investments, Woodside's AGM and more.
Two global agribusiness giants have lodged competing bids for ASX company Namoi Cotton, which is behind the construction of WA’s first cotton processing gin.
Neoen’s stage 2 project at Collie adds to grid-scale energy storage batteries being built by Synergy and Alinta, with a combined cost in excess of $3 billion.
Mineral Resources has flagged plans to sell an interest in its Perth Basin gas infrastructure as it progresses the partial sale of an iron ore haul road in the Pilbara.