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.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss big news in Perth's hotel sector; mining industry updates; the dispute between Damien Oliver and his former manager; and a magazine preview.
A giant Pilbara mine enmeshed in a dispute between its owner and Clive Palmer is likely to cease operations within the next few years, a Supreme Court judge has found.
Toyota has extended its lead as the biggest-selling automotive brand in Western Australia but growth in sales was led by China’s Chery and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss a desal plant in the Pilbara, leadership changes at Austal, revised interest rates and the planning saga around Cottesloe's Indiana Tea House and more.
Indigenous firm IPS Management Consultants is the big winner from the latest round of state government contracts to provide small business advisory services across WA.
A surprise uptick in Australia’s inflation rate has lifted the chances the Reserve Bank of Australia will increase interest rates again as it struggles to stifle price pressure.
The Yindjibarndi people have ramped up their long-running battle with Fortescue by calling for an environmental inquiry into the miner’s Solomon hub operations in the Pilbara.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the Chinese premier's visit to WA; critical minerals; iron ore mines closure; Dutton's nuclear plan; WA's gas market, Woodside and BGC; and a mag preview.
BGC Australia has disclosed a flurry of changes to its board and senior executive team including Andrew Buckeridge stepping down as a non-executive director.
Specialist WA mining company GMA Garnet, which recently came under full ownership of Singapore’s Jebsen & Jessen Group, has expanded its global network with a distribution hub in Malaysia.
A pastoral station just north of Kalbarri could be home to Australia’s first giga-scale hydrogen development after its backers introduced major changes.
Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Rio's Kwinana plan, Fortescue's dispute, MinRes selling its stake, Northern Minerals boardroom, Libby Mettam, House values, VGW, and a magazine preview.
A Chinese shareholder ordered to sell his stake in Northern Minerals has come within a whisker of being elected to the company’s board, in one of several unusual voting results.
Mark Beyer and Jack McGinn discuss the Perth Airport and Qantas deal; Hesperia restructure; development delays; Wildcats bid; domgas supply; and Shell and Woodside in court.
The global investor that owns construction giant Multiplex, major CBD office towers and WA’s freight rail network is set to own the state’s largest grid-scale battery.
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.