Tom Zaunmayr

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed when Australians will vote on constitutional recognition of Indigenous people and a Voice to Parliament

A $3 billion renewable energy deal designed to future-proof Western Australia’s energy grids has been inked between the federal and state governments.

Construction of a new wharf in Dampier to accommodate urea exports and other bulk cargo has gone to tender.

Construction of a sorely-needed workers village in Kalbarri is back to square one, with the state government ending negotiations with the Perth firm penciled in to build it.

Penny Wong and Julie Bishop strolled through Perth's CBD in a show of Indigenous Voice solidarity on Monday after the state's party unity on the vote broke down.

Anthony Albanese has praised the Pilbara’s resources sector for keeping the nation’s schools and hospitals running on a flying visit to Australia’s iron ore heartland.

BP has called on government support to improve infrastructure as it presses toward a final investment decision for its H2Kwinana hydrogen hub next year.

WA government spend on Aboriginal affairs has grown more than 30 per cent since pandemic restrictions limiting access to remote communities and regional areas lifted.

More than 450 workers on Chevron’s Pilbara gas operations have backed industrial action over a pay dispute between unions and the multinational gas giant.

South32's budget has gone into the black off the back of a US$1.3 billion write-down of one of its US projects.

A pay dispute threatening to see most workers on several Pilbara gas platforms down tools has been averted after Woodside and union reps burned the midnight oil to iron out a deal.

WA continues to take one step forward, two step backwards on Aboriginal self-determination

The boss of a waste-to-energy plant being built in Kwinana is adamant it will be operational next year as he talks up the sector’s potential to power WA homes and hospitals.

Carnarvon has emerged as a potential new home for WA’s plantation sandalwood industry after a 15-year trial recorded better growth than experienced at its existing base in Kununurra.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss recent happenings in the state's busy energy sector.

South32 has fired a salvo at the state’s gas producers, accusing them of forcing unreasonable terms on buyers and calling on the state government to enforce a use it or lose policy over gas fields.

Woodside has been given a two-week ultimatum to avoid industrial action by workers on its offshore gas platforms in the Pilbara over a protracted bargaining dispute.

Businesses are being urged to stock up inventories as the prospect of more freight disruptions looms over WA coming into the wet season up north and fire season down south.

A new data centre switched on in Australia’s mining heartland could turbocharge the industry’s investment in automation and remote operation technology.

Last-minute changes to new medium density housing codes have drawn the ire of local governments as stakeholders wait on an updated timeline for the revised code’s implementation.

Ground has broken on construction of a 100-megawatt battery at Alinta’s Wagerup power station which will help smooth out supply for power in the state’s South West.

The office of a company chosen to build workers accommodation in country WA has been shuttered and staff gone to ground amid concerns over its ability to deliver on the project.

Planning reforms to pave the way for 1.2 million new homes across Australia by the end of the decade will be drawn up as part of a national approach to combat a spiraling housing affordability crisis.

The state government has locked in a date in November this year to close the Armadale and Thornlie lines so work can progress on removing level crossings and raising the train tracks.

Port Hedland will become a national hub for a new kind of port critical to the future of the Pilbara’s multi-billion-dollar resources industry.

A Western Australian embassy housing a rotating roster of state ministers will be established in Canberra under a new state government plan to ensure WA is front-of-mind in the nation’s capital.

WA Premier Roger Cook believes the state has only “just scratched the surface” of its renewables potential as he outlines his vision for WA to become a global green energy superpower.

Police will be able to seize and destroy alcohol on the spot and impose fines of up to $10,000 under the latest crackdown to stamp out problem drinking in WA’s North West.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss an eventful week in Western Australian state politics.

A homegrown invention treating a common chronic ear condition in infants is ready to expand clinical trials in Perth and the WA outback.

Western Australian nurses and midwives are overwhelmingly backing plans to form a state political party in the latest escalation of a bitter wages feud between their union and the WA government.

Australia’s financial investigations watchdog has remained tight-lipped about the decision to investigate Perth Mint during a federal hearing into its probe of the scandal-plagued organisation