Tom Zaunmayr

The bluster around automation, artificial intelligence and jobs plays out online and in column inches most weeks around the world, but is it justified?

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the impacts of rising insurance premiums for those living in the regions.

WA senator Pat Dodson has handed in his resignation to focus on recovering from cancer, which he says has left him physically unable to fulfil his duties to the nation.

Plans for a 300-room, four-star hotel in Port Hedland's West End have been submitted by a Singaporean developer.

US e-scooter company Bird is understood to have exited the Western Australian market, leaving several local governments scrambling for new electric share-scooter operators.

Perth Mint’s new boss says the gold refiner is well on its way to fixing compliance issues chairman Sam Walsh admits have hurt its reputation in WA.

A developer wanting to bring a touch of the Gold Coast to South Hedland has appointed a builder to its $51 million apartment complex and hopes to break ground next year.

The Perth Mint has been spared a hefty fine for failing to comply with anti-money laundering rules by the federal government’s financial regulator.

A golden triangle local government has pipped the Sydney rich-list haven of Mosman as home to the highest average employee incomes in the nation in the midst of COVID-19.

Agricultural exports to the Middle East are being thwarted by a lack of space on planes leaving Western Australia and remain well below pre-COVID levels.

An algae farm in Karratha will seek to defy history and build an intensive agriculture industry servicing the lucrative health products market.

A regional Western Australia brewery is making its first foray into Perth with plans to open a taphouse overlooking the Indian Ocean by Christmas.

Andrew and Nicola Forrest have purchased Akubra to add to their ever-expanding rollcall of Australian business interests.

There is no good replacement for Western Australia’s live sheep trade, Agriculture Minister Jackie Jarvis has conceded, as the industry grapples with its looming closure.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the return of a biofuels sector in Western Australia.

The WA government will step in to fill a $300 million funding gap for regional road projects left by the federal government’s exit from 50 funding partnerships nationwide.

Described as a 'misery tax', insurance duty is hitting businesses and homeowners hard while generating a windfall for state coffers

Biofuel gained a foothold in Australia in the mid-noughties, but it wasn't to be. Today a second wave of projects hopes to cement the industry in WA

Funding for four major regional WA road projects is among 50 infrastructure deals scrapped by the federal government due to cost blowouts.

Western Australian retailers are pleading for a hardline crackdown on workplace attacks amid shock new data that reveals most shop attendants no longer feel safe at work.

A medical manufacturing facility formerly run by COVID vaccine producer Pfizer has received a $2 million state government cash injection to expand WA’s pharmaceutical capabilities.

Fortescue has staked out an area larger than Brisbane near its Pilbara iron ore operations for a potential green energy hub, days after terminating an application for another site.

Native title holders opposing an iron ore mine bordering Karijini hold a swag of tenements next to the park they say have been pegged to ensure “culturally safe” mining.

Local government truck movements and port terminal operations need to be standardised to improve supply chain resilience, according to the boss of a WA freight-forwarding company.

Qantas has quietly grounded bi-weekly flights between Melbourne and Exmouth on the same day it launched another direct interstate flight between northern WA and the east coast.

Traditional owners are rallying against an iron ore minnow planning to develop a mine on the edge of Karijini National Park in WA’s mining heartland.

The boss of Australia’s native title lobby has warned Indigenous groups cannot be pushed into fast-tracking reforms after a string of high-profile court wins against oil and gas projects.

The state government is probing what needs to be done to ensure the latest attempt to establish a bioenergy industry in WA doesn’t suffer the same fate as efforts nearly two decades ago.

Tom Zaunmayr and Jack McGinn discuss the storied career of a Perth craft brewery stalwart.

Western Australia’s environmental watchdog has waved through a new irrigation project at one of billionaire Kerry Stokes’ Kimberley pastoral stations.

A common agricultural fertiliser could fuel the iron ore megaships calling into Western Australia’s bulk export ports in the state’s north-west.

Fortescue’s proposed multi-billion-dollar renewable energy hub in the Pilbara has been shelved as the miner insists it will meet bold decarbonisation targets by 2030.