Tom Zaunmayr joined Business News in 2023 as a senior journalist, covering state politics, resources (iron ore), Aboriginal affairs, regional development and agriculture.
He spent the past decade covering news in regional WA where he developed a passion for local and state politics, regional development, small business, Aboriginal affairs, human interest and anything Pilbara related.
Mr Zaunmayr spent five years in Karratha during one of the biggest periods of transition for the Pilbara town before moving to Kalgoorlie during COVID to take on a role as deputy editor of WA's only daily regional newspaper.
From there, he moved back above the 26th parallel as Seven West Media's Northern Papers editor based in Broome, and did a stint as editor of the National Indigenous Times.
Nadia Budihardjo and Tom Zaunmayr discuss how former journalist Tamara BinAmat has built a marketing and communications agency with national reach from her home town of Karratha.
A remarkable knack for forging connections has made Wardandi Bibbulmun elder Dale Tilbrook immensely valuable to – and respected by – Western Australia's culinary scene.
Perth renewable power company Frontier Energy has revealed plans to significantly expand its proposed Waroona solar farm to help replace retiring coal-fired generation within six years.
Mark Pownall and Tom Zaunmayr discuss BHP's dealings; Trump link to Cockatoo Island; Alcoa Kwinana's closure; Perth Airport; Seven West merger, WA meat processors; and Port Coogee.
A company linked to collapsed builder Diploma Group has tweaked plans for its apartment project on Carnarvon waterfront land purchased from the state government.
Grants to get projects shovel-ready are needed to help Indigenous-backed renewable energy plans come to fruition, according to the boss of a Kimberley Aboriginal corporation.
WA meat processors Westpork and Dardanup Butchering Company have merged and announced more than $60 million of investments to boost feed and meat supply.
Government intervention is being called on to fix a broken insurance market in the Kimberley which is forcing business owners to cut staff, scale back growth, and mull leaving the region.
Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss why concerns are emerging about a lack of succession literacy ahead of a looming transfer of intergenerational wealth.
Mark Pownall and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the biggest WA homebuilders; the Optus outage; new Busselton build; CBD revamps; renewable energy; and the largest pastoral station being sold.
Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss how Enel X's role as a commercial-scale energy asset aggregator will help keep the lights on in the South West Interconnected System.
Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss how evolving generation methods and growing energy demand in remote locations have boosted a handful of WA businesses.
A team of renewable newcomers are behind a $190 million plan to build a solar farm by the Forrest Highway which would feed power to industrial projects and the state's first EV servo.
The backer of WA's biggest active biorefinery plan wants to see the federal government's $1.1 billion biofuels fund used to stimulate domestic demand for low carbon fuels.