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BHP has drawn its battlelines with bright green cones as the Port Hedland community braces for union-led strikes that could worsen the town’s ‘already exorbitant’ cost of doing business.

MiningCommentsPremiumCones, carnivals and mega wages: Inside the BHP strike

BHP has drawn its battlelines with bright green cones as the Port Hedland community braces for union-led strikes that could worsen the town’s ‘already exorbitant’ cost of doing business.

Adrian Rauso

Ora Banda Mining’s Waihi gold operations, northwest of Kalgoorlie, where it has approved underground and open pit expansions for its project.

Record gold quarter for Ora Banda fuels 300koz ambitions in WA

Ora Banda has posted record quarterly gold production of nearly 40,000 ounces, lifting its cash to $268M and boosting its resource to 3.69 million as it launches a transformational ‘DRIVE to 300’ strategy.

Andrew Todd

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Most countries could build their own data centres.

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How to make AI safe — and free of America and China

THE ECONOMIST: State-backed efforts to catch up with frontier models are doomed.

Macquarie Technology plans to build a fourth data centre. Supplied

NewsPremiumSite of $3bn data centre confirmed

Plans for a new multibillion-dollar data centre in Sydney have taken a significant step forward after the purchase of land for the project.

David Hannant

Young Aussies have been increasingly turning to investing to fund their first home deposit. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumYoung investors bet the house on dialling up their risk

Priced out of the housing market for years, young Australians are looking to the stock market to build wealth, and they're not afraid of taking on risk.

Adrian Black

The future of the smelter has been under a cloud since it stopped production in mid-2025. (Ethan James/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumSmelter to shut despite sale bid, hundreds of jobs lost

More than 200 workers at the nation's only manganese smelter have lost their jobs after administrators announced the facility would close.

Ethan James

The retail giant has challenged the ACCC, lodging an application with the Australian Competition Tribunal.

RetailCommentsPremiumGoldfields supermarket battle heats up with Coles appeal

Coles is seeking a review of the Australian competition watchdog’s decision to block its proposal for a new supermarket and liquor store in Kalgoorlie.

Rebecca Le May

This edition of The Cap Raise Crucible features Megaport, Forrestania and KGL Resources

The Cap Raise Crucible for June: Megaport, Forrestania and KGL Resources

This inaugural edition of The Crucible features Megaport, Forrestania and KGL Resources after punters poured a huge $3.5B into 56 equity deals in June, favouring hard-rock mining and AI infrastructure.

Murray Ward

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Const. Stuart Cunningham and Sen. Const. Marty Gibson getting excited to take part in the Polar Plunge at 9am on Sunday at Middleton Beach.

Gig GuideWhat’s on in Albany and the Great Southern this week

From Luke Kidgell’s Good Intentions to Polar Plunge, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern

Albany Advertiser

Mining workers are among the highest paid workers in Australia. So, why are they striking?

MiningCommentsPremiumWhat are BHP port workers really fighting for?

Battle lines have been drawn as workers join unions and mining companies fiercely resist change. So what does BHP want, and what new terms are today’s striking workers fighting for?

Alexis Vassiley

Fleetwood’s Searipple workers village in Karratha.

MiningCommentsPremiumFleetwood snaps up Pilbara village, sells caravan parts arm

Fleetwood is paying $22 million for Bechtel’s 2169-bed Red Dog village, adding to the 1500 beds it already has in Karratha’s Searipple village and the Osprey camp in Port Hedland.

Sean Smith

Delivering his first set of production results, newly minted chief executive Brandon Craig said BHP had finished the year strongly and had set several performance records.

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Strike action mars BHP’s record, new $1.3b mine plan

Strike action by BHP workers in the Pilbara today — the first in almost three decades — has marred revelations that the Big Australian has pulled in its biggest-ever haul of iron ore.

Daniel Newell

Australians have stopped spending even as shops announced heavy discounts. NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

FINANCEPremiumGrim reason Aussies stopped spending

Massive end of financial year discounts have failed to move the needle for Australian retailers, as households keep their wallets closed.

Cameron Micallef

Coalition unleashes blistering attack over housing crisis.

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Coalition accuse Labor of destroying the Aussie dream

LIVE UPDATES: Young Australians are being priced out of the housing market, the Coalition claims, as it ramps up pressure on Labor over affordability and supply.

Madeline Cove

Advocates want a coalmine extension rejected because of its climate impacts both local and global. (Nikki Short/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumClimate test looms for major coalmine extension

A planning commission must consider local climate impacts from burning coal overseas, environmentalists say, as hearings begin for a major mine expansion.

Poppy Johnston

The ingestion of amphetamine-type stimulants has soared among the mostly blue-collar workers tested. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumSoaring meth abuse at work prompts warning to bosses

The workplace use of drugs, particularly methamphetamine and cocaine, is rising and remains a real safety risk for employers.

Kaaren Morrissey

Evolution Mining’s Mungari operations west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

Gold miningPremiumMungari churns out 186,000 ounces of gold in FY26

Evolution Mining’s Mungari operations west of Kalgoorlie-Boulder took a giant stride in the 2026 financial year toward becoming a 200,000 ounces-a-year producer.

Neil Watkinson

Wall Street traders are pricing in a 10.2 per cent chance of a quarter-point rate rise in July. (EPA PHOTO)

MarketsPremiumWall Street ends higher on cool inflation data

US stocks have closed higher as investors digested economic data and major companies' earning results.

Stephen Culp and Ragini Mathur

Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace and Workplace Relations Amanda Rishworth has said the Federal Government will not intervene.

State PoliticsCommentsPremiumBHP strike to go ahead as Feds ignore pleas to intervene

The Albanese Government will not stop tomorrow’s strike in the Pilbara - despite last minute pleas from WA business and resource groups for federal intervention to stop WA’s darkest hour, in years.

Joe Spagnolo

Licensee of the Horse and Groom Inn, formerly known as the Albany Hotel, Adam Pumphrey.

old made newPremiumGetting ready for the newest version of WA’s oldest pub

In about 10 weeks, the pub formerly known as the Albany Hotel is set to reopen its doors under a new name.

Melissa Sheil

Sushant and Puja Rai are the new owners of Garrison Restaurant and Bar on Mt Adelaide, taking over the iconic venue this month from Jonni Saville-Wright. Laurie Benson

under new managementPremiumGarrison in new hands, local couple take on popular venue

One of Albany’s fine dining restaurants is under new ownership, with long-time owner John Saville-Wright handing over Garrison Restaurant and Bar after 12 years at the helm. 

Jacki Elezovich

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivers a speech titled AI in Australia’s Interests at the University of Sydney as he announces the Office of AI.

BusinessCommentsPremiumCanberra’s new AI rules play to WA data centre’s hand

Power-hungry data centres face new rules set by the Prime Minister on Wednesday but a Kimberley project says it has the answer.

Ryan Johnson

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

WA NewsVideoPremiumPerth mechanic found dead in Bali conned man out of $76,000

A Perth man who died in a Balinese detention centre reportedly owed tens of thousands of dollars to more than a dozen furious customers he ripped off through his Indonesian car restoration company. 

Jessica Evensen

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NewsPremiumDumped e-bikes sees council scrap scheme

One Aussie council has cancelled its e-bike scheme over a row with the operator who refused to pick-up dumped bikes.

Emma Kirk