Tess Ingram
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Perth, WA, Australia
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Cashed up and striking gold: the resurgence of Australia’s mineral explorers
A boom is bubbling away at the small end of the mining market, with investors injecting close to $8 billion of cash into the sector over the past 12 months. → Read More
A year on from the destruction at Juukan, could it happen again?
What are the laws and agreements that are meant to protect Indigenous heritage? How can they be improved? And are laws enough? → Read More
One week down in the WA Crown Royal Commission, this is what we learned
In its first week, it wasn’t crime that stole the headlines, but the complex inner workings of the WA government. → Read More
Roger Cook cancels travel plans for Kimberley charity bike event
Mr Cook was due to leave this weekend for the Gibb Challenge, a 660-kilometre charity event raising funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service of WA. → Read More
Perth business heavyweights unite for brutal bike event
A powerful team has assembled to tackle the Gibb Challenge and raise funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. → Read More
WA in the dark on ADHD drug use after government quietly stops reporting
Months after becoming Health Minister, Roger Cook promised to continue publishing a report that kept track of drugs such as amphetamine prescribed by WA doctors. It has been missing without explanation. → Read More
Why Australia’s rocks could be the secret to reviving its regional economies
And no – it doesn’t involve mining them. → Read More
Two-speed economy hits WA’s South West as Perth tourists ‘drive and drop’
The South West tourism sector is enduring a two-speed recovery from COVID-19, as tourists from Perth flock to hotels and watering holes but hold back from spending on tours and attractions. → Read More
Pregnant Perth woman given morphine, left waiting for 26 hours at King Edward Memorial Hospital
Madeleine Cusworth was told by a midwife that King Edward Memorial Hospital was trying not to send the same people home twice. ’They were accepting that a lot of people were being sent home once, but they were prioritising people that had already been sent home once so they weren’t sent home again,” she said. → Read More
Why sexual harassment is not unlawful at work in WA unless the victims meet ‘test’
“The fact this hasn’t changed is shameful and an indictment on our legislative system and our legislators from both sides of politics over many years,” says Samantha Maddern, a partner at law firm Mills Oakley. → Read More
‘Off the charts’: Perth rental market braces for shock when eviction ban lifts
We explain what the end of the WA moratorium means for rental prices, property availability and tenants in crisis. → Read More
As WA working families start to call, housing support workers face ‘tsunami’ of homelessness
WA social sector experts predict a “tsunami of homelessness” with as many as 100,000 people affected when the moratorium on rental evictions ends in an already tight market. → Read More
Andrew Forrest defends Fortescue pay packets after proxy adviser criticism
Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest says he will defend the company's approach to executive pay "all day and every day". → Read More
Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest cashes in as Fortescue profit surges
Fortescue Metals Group has smashed analyst expectations with a final dividend payout five times what it was last year. → Read More
Iron ore break-even points halve but unlikely to dive much further: Citi
The "break-even" point at which the world's largest iron ore producers are neither making nor losing cash has halved in less than three years. → Read More
CBH rejects GrainCorp's ASX listing plan
The nation's largest grains exporter, CBH Group, has rejected plans by the GrainCorp-backed Australian Grains Champion to list the WA company on the Australian Securities Exchange. → Read More
Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill project's first shipment 'imminent'
An iron ore carrier is on the way to collect the first shipment from the $10 billion Roy Hill project. → Read More
Iron ore mine closures only a matter of time
The iron ore industry's junior producers have dramatically cut costs to chase down the plummeting price, but according to some analysts, the continued cost reductions are only delaying the inevitable. → Read More
Fortescue share rally gives Andrew Forrest a $750m pay day
Fortescue shares have surged 40 per cent in the past fortnight. Why? → Read More
Atlas Iron records $1.4b loss on back of iron ore slump
Atlas Iron's horror year has been aired in bleak full year results marred by a staggering $1.4 billion loss and a warning of likely challenges repaying debt. → Read More