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Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King didn’t confirm whether Premier Roger Cook had campaigned for a carve-out from the changes, but said the State Government would have turned its mind to community infrastructure.

EconomyPremiumWA Government, Commonwealth ‘aligned’ on skilled migration

The Albanese and WA Governments are ‘aligned’ on the issue of skilled migration, WA’s most senior minister in the Federal Cabinet says, ahead of looming changes aimed at cutting net inflows.

Rebecca Le May

The Institute of Public Affairs’ “Losing its Lustre” report blames 11 factors - and both State and Federal governments.

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We blew it: How Australia missed $688b of mining investment

Australia has lost out on a huge amount of investment thanks to “increasingly hostile” government policies that have forced the resources sector into decline, new research claims.

Rebecca Le May

Northern Minerals' Browns Range heavy rare earths project in the East Kimberley.

MiningPremiumNorthern Minerals investors hit with new orders

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers now has to approve the buyers of the shares held by two of the dissident Chinese-linked investors in the strategically important rare earths play.

Sean Smith

BHP shiploading during strike.

MiningPremiumStrikes hit iron ore port but BHP plays down impact

Mining giant BHP has played down the impact of industrial action at WA’s crucial export hub in Port Hedland over the weekend as a make-or-break negotiation looms within days.

Matt Mckenzie

Mohammad Farzam, Jason Milne and Andrew Lockwood pictured at Curtin University’s Bentley campus, Perth, on Wednesday. They are innovators as part of the university’s inaugural DeepStart program. Carwyn Monck

BusinessPremiumThe WA innovators chasing cash boost for future success

WA researchers are taking their inventions out of the lab and pitching them to miners, farmers, manufacturers and investors as part of a new tech accelerator.

Ryan Johnson

A BHP spokesperson said the port was still functioning and negotiations were continuing.

State PoliticsPremiumBHP says operations continuing despite WA strike action

Mining giant BHP says product is still making its way onto boats despite 48-hours of industrial action from a group of unions beginning on Saturday with a day’s ban on loading ships.

Oliver Lane

Did nobody in Perth ponder the financing structure of this $95 million brick?

Herd on the TerracePremiumThe Bull’s not having a bar of it

A gold bar generated a selfie storm in Kalgoorlie this week but The Bull was a little more wary of Perth Mint’s latest $100 million side-quest.

A promotional image for BHP's FutureFit Academy in Forrestfield

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Jobs cut at BHP’s Perth training centre

BHP has slashed jobs at its diversity-focused academy in Perth and issued a broad apology amid accusations of sexual harassment against one of its trainers.

Adrian Rauso

US President Donald Trump is furthering efforts to break China’s stranglehold on the supply of rare earths and critical minerals.

MiningPremiumBHP, Rio get call up to Trump’s critical minerals talks

Top executives from WA’s big two iron ore miners and a Gina Rinehart-backed rare earths producer have been summoned for a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Adrian Rauso and Joe Deaux

Gold miners are turning to low-cost revamps while sounding the alarm over capital gains changes. Beyond the precious metal, debate over a potential clean energy source was reignited.

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The big topics and trends at this year’s Diggers & Dealers

Gold miners are turning to low-cost revamps while sounding the alarm over capital gains changes. Beyond the precious metal, debate over a potential clean energy source was reignited.

Adrian Rauso

Andreas Loizou (left) who was died in a crash close to the Peak Downs mine. GoFundMe

NEWSPremium‘Deeply loved’: Miner mourned after tragedy

Tributes have flowed for a beloved father who died in a workplace mining tragedy, with the community rallying around his children.

David Hannant

News. BHP workers strike in Port Hedland. The union set up on the grass out the front of the entrance to the BHP site in Port Hedland.

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Union blow as member nerves show ahead of BHP strike action

A key union at BHP’s WA iron ore port has thrown a spanner in the works of planned strike action this weekend, fuelled by member fears of losing two days’ pay.

Adrian Rauso and Oliver Lane

Bank of America wants to build a bigger presence in WA’s mining sector.

MiningPremiumBank of America plans Perth office to grab more mining deals

The $630 billion US banking giant confirmed on Thursday it had leased space in Perth’s central business district for an office to be headed by BofA’s co-head of natural resources investment banking.

Sean Smith

Northern Star Resources chief operating officer Simon Jessop with the new vehicles at the Super Pit lookout.

Big machinesPremiumTruck, digger and loader displayed at Super Pit lookout

Visitors at the Super Pit lookout can now get up close and personal with enormous mining machines.

Isabella Davis

Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli and Diggers & Dealers chair Jim Walker at the Diggers & Dealers Mining Forum in Kalgoorlie-Boulder on Wednesday.

Uranium miningPremiumWA Government won’t lift ban on new uranium mines

WA’s newly minted mines minister says the State Government won’t be lifting its ban on new uranium mines following one of the country’s new customers of the nuclear fuel saying it would welcome a policy change.

Neil Watkinson

Rox Resources managing director and chief executive Phillip Wilding.

Gold miningPremiumLocked-in contracts help Rox avoid Youanmi cost pressures

Locked-in contracts have insulated Rox Resources from cost pressures following the US-Israel attack on Iran as it continues to progress the Youanmi gold project toward first gold next year.

Neil Watkinson

The Telfer gold mine in the north west of Western Australia.

MiningPremiumGoldies win big again at Diggers & Dealers awards

Greatland Resources’ transformational purchase of the historic Telfer mine has earned it the coveted Dealer of the Year award.

Adrian Rauso

Delegates outside the community pavilion on day one of the 2026 Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum.

BusinessPremiumFour key takeaways from Diggers mining conference

There’s a spring in the step of WA’s mid-tier resources companies thanks to a glistening gold price and sharp improvement in the outlook for battery-making metal lithium.

Matt Mckenzie & Adrian Rauso

Committee for Economic Development Australia chief executive Melinda Cilento said earlier this week that migration “should not be seen as a silver bullet ... nor should it be a scapegoat”.

EconomyPremiumBusiness warns migration cuts will stifle growth, innovation

Business leaders fear a move by the Albanese Government to cut net migration will make it harder to secure skilled workers and will curtail innovation and economic growth.

Rebecca Le May and Sean Smith

Glencore chief executive Gary Nagle.

MiningPremiumGlencore to pursue secondary listing on the ASX

Global miner says it has faced a ‘big push’ from investors to list in Australia, given it has a ‘deep pool of capital with a deep knowledge of the industry’.

Thomas Biesheuvel

Environmental scientist Ella Maesepp and hydrologist Lance Mudgway talk to the community about the Ausgold mine concerns.

Public concernPremiumEnvironmental concerns on Ausgold mine raised in Katanning

Concerns over the potential environmental impacts of a proposed Ausgold mine at Badgebup were raised at a community meeting in Katanning on Thursday.

Amy Towers

Tropicana gold mine

MiningPremiumRegis eyes Tropicana after Vault merger flop

Jim Beyer said his Regis Resources would ‘definitely’ throw its hat in the ring to buy AngloGold Ashanti’s majority stake in the prolific Tropicana gold mine.

Adrian Rauso

Day three of the 2026 Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, on Wednesday. Pictured is Mines Minister Daniel Pastorelli and Member for Kalgoorlie Ali Kent. Carwyn Monck

MiningPremiumRookie minister rules out uranium ban U-turn

Mines Minister Daniel Pastorell ruled out lifting WA’s uranium mining ban despite a Federal deal and is not tempted to bump up the gold royalty rate amid sky-high prices for the precious metal.

Adrian Rauso

Ausgold executive chairman John Dorward, Ausgold general manager Troy Collie and Ausgold chief executive Ben Stockdale.

Public MeetingPremiumAusgold address public concerns about mine at public meeting

Traffic, heavy vehicle movements and housing were among the biggest concerns raised at a public meeting by residents as Ausgold outlined plans for its proposed Katanning gold mine project.

Amy Towers