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Drilling at Ora Banda Mining’s Sand King gold mine in the West Australian Goldfields.

Ora Banda nails bonanza gold to supercharge WA cash cow

Ora Banda Mining has drilled into wide, high-grade gold at its Sand King underground mine in WA’s Goldfields, confirming a growing northerly mineralised corridor, most likely boosting ounces significantly.

Andrew Todd

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WA's population growth is outpacing the rest of the nation as its finances continue to prosper. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumGold, iron ore and population swell big state's coffers

Australia's richest state has unveiled a modest mid-year budget windfall due to strong commodity prices and a growing population.

Aaron Bunch

The start of the Dampier to Bunbury gas pipeline at the North West Shelf Venture gas plant, near Dampier, in 2004.

EnergyPremiumMajor price hike looming for WA’s biggest gas users

Gas users are set to pay nearly $1 billion more across the next five years after a regulatory decision to drastically hike the price of the State’s main transmission trunk line. 

Matt Mckenzie

Albany Seafoods' Tony Westerberg.

Fishing BanPremiumFishing reforms spark concern for Great Southern fishermen

Albany’s fishing community is voicing concern over the new fishing ban, with local business owners saying the changes could harm the Great Southern’s fishing industry. 

Amy Towers

A gossan rock-chip sample assaying 12.4g/t gold from Taruga Minerals’ Gwamogwamo prospect on East Normanby Island in PNG.

Taruga strikes high-grade gold at new PNG project

Taruga Minerals has received encouraging independent assay results from rock chip sampling at its Gwamogwamo prospect, which forms part of the company’s new East Normanby gold project in Papua New Guinea.

Doug Bright

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A shareholder group has taken aim at ANZ's directors after a troubled year for the bank. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

BankingPremiumANZ board won't follow CEO's lead and sacrifice fees

ANZ's chairman says its board has been doing its job, rejecting a suggestion from the Australian Shareholders Association that directors give back some pay.

Derek Rose

Daniel Kiely will move from BCEC to CCIWA.

EconomicsCommentsPremiumPeak business lobby picks up new economist

The State’s peak business lobby group has finally filled a major hole with the appointment of a new chief economist.

Matt Mckenzie

Fremantle Ports run the Kwinana Bulk Terminal and the nearby Kwinana Bulk Jetty.

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumBudget throws $22.5m at Kwinana’s port ship show

An upgrade of Kwinana’s ageing port infrastructure is under consideration after industry warned shocking shipping congestion was adding to local freight costs.

Matt Mckenzie

Estrella Resources geologist Bebeto Abelia during drilling at the company’s Werumata Limestone prospect in Timor Leste.

Estrella unearths more high-grade manganese zones in Timor-Leste

Estrella Resources has rolled out another set of manganese-rich results from its Ira Miri project in Timor-Leste, with several high-grade hits hinting at the potential for multiple stacked manganese horizons.

Andrew Todd

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Paul O’Sullivan, chairman of ANZ Group Holdings Ltd, said he anticipated the disapproval.

BankingCommentsANZ receives second strike against executive pay

A third of ANZ shareholders have voted against its remuneration report, making it the first Big Four bank since Westpac in 2019 to suffer a second strike. New CEO Nuno Matos is forgoing short-term bonuses.

Stephen Johnson

American West Metals will kick off a gallium and indium-focused drill program at its flagship West Desert project in the US state of Utah next year after re-sampling of historical drill core uncovered high-grade critical metals.

American West chases US gallium and indium in new drilling blitz

American West Metals will kick off a gallium and indium-focused drill program at its flagship US project next year after re-sampling of historical drill core uncovered high-grade critical metals.

Craig Nolan

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South Korea's KOSPI has dropped 1.3 per cent during morning trading. (AP PHOTO)

MarketsPremiumAsian stocks fall after tech sector selloff

The MSCI's broadest index ‌of Asia-Pacific shares has fallen as traders brace for an expected rate hike in Japan on Friday.

Stella Qiu

The Austal-built USS Canbera sails into Sydney Harbour in July 2023.

ManufacturingCommentsPremiumCanberra confirms $1.03b landing craft deal for Henderson

ASX-listed Austal will build 18 medium-sized landing craft at Henderson over six years for the Australian Army under the Government’s recently-finalised strategic shipbuilding agreement.

Sean Smith

The recently mobilised 120-tonne excavator working on Pacgold Limited’s White Dam gold mine in South Australia.

Pacgold set to reboot South Australian mine for 2026 first gold pour

Pacgold Limited is set to restart gold leaching at its White Dam gold project in South Australia following final approvals for the resumption of irrigation at the historic heap leach operation.

Andrew Todd

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New Zealand-born journalist Peter Arnett, who won the Pulitzer Prize, has died in the US. (AP PHOTO)

MediaPremiumPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett dies

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died aged 91.

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ANZ chief executive Nuno Matos.

BankingPremiumSTRIKE TWO!: ANZ says more cuts option after failures

ANZ chairman Paul O’Sullivan says the bank’s board maintains the option to reduce bonuses further for executives amid growing discontent over accountability for past failings.

Adam Haigh

Boss Energy's Honeymoon uranium project

MiningCommentsPremiumHoneymoon for shorters as Boss plummets on mine update

Shares in Boss Energy have tanked more than 25 per cent after the most shorted company on the ASX conceded its Honeymoon uranium mine is not as good as originally spruiked.

Adrian Rauso

Rising property prices helped lift Australians’ overall net wealth. NewsWire / Damian Shaw

FINANCEInsane rise in household wealth in just three months

Australian household wealth has soared over the last three months due to rising property, stocks and superannuation assets.

Cameron Micallef

SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic valuations won’t get a free pass.

The EconomistCommentsSky-high IPOs are now facing gravity

THE ECONOMIST: After years of private funding, SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic may test the stock market. Their valuations won’t get a free pass.

Four of 11 sectors on the ASX were lower as the market meandered to a fairly flat finish. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

MarketsPremiumShares finish flat as energy stocks continue to drift

The local bourse has ended the session roughly flat as it closes in on 2025's last full week of trading, weighed down by heavy energy and utilities stocks.

Adrian Black

Woodside Energy chief executive Meg O'Neill has announced her resignation. NewsWire / Nikki Short

BUSINESSASX-listed energy giant hunts for new CEO

An Australian energy giant is on the lookout for a new permanent top boss after its chief executive was snapped up by a British colossal.

Cameron Micallef

Optus released the findings of an independent review, led by former NBN director Kerry Schott.

BusinessCommentsReview of Optus’ triple-0 meltdown exposes internal failures

A damning report into an outage at Optus — which cut off access to triple-0 services and was linked to two deaths — has exposed a raft of internal problems at the telco.

Daniel Newell

Thousands of Australians collectively lost $1bn when the two funds collapsed NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

FINANCEAussies’ $100m payout after super fund collapse

More than 1000 Australians will receive more than $100m in compensation after a major super fund collapsed.

Cameron Micallef

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BREAKINGPremium‘Deeply sorry’: Optus triple-0 report released

Three months after its deadly triple-0 outage, Optus has released the details of an independent probe.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer