Jack McGinn

A temporary injunction placed on seismic testing at Woodside’s Scarborough project off the North West coast has been hailed by Traditional Owners ahead of a second hearing later this month.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss the Dick Lester's long-term sponsorship of the Lester Prize for Portraiture.

Western Australia's unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage points in August, despite reporting a record high number of people in work.

The imminent production milestone at Strike Energy’s Walyering gas project in the Perth Basin has taken a back-seat as regional rhetoric and policy changes ramp up.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss local governments going beyond rates for revenue in Western Australia. 

WA’s shires and councils are expanding income sources through necessity and ambition.

A group representing the interests of the state’s biggest gas users wants the Economic Regulation Authority to monitor domestic supply, a government inquiry has heard.

Strike Energy has told the state’s Domestic Gas Price Inquiry that a requirement for onshore Perth Basin projects to supply the domestic market is stifling access to international investment.

Perth-headquartered Woodside Energy has commenced oil production at the Shenzi North project in the Gulf of Mexico, acquired in its deal for BHP Petroleum in 2022.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the state of freight networks in Western Australia.

Chevron and Offshore Alliance will appear before the Fair Work Commission on September 22 after an application to the industrial umpire for intervention by the LNG producer.

BP appears confident its plans for a renewable fuels biorefinery at Kwinana will meet environmental objectives, as a period of public comment opens on the proposed project.

Chevron has returned its Wheatstone domestic gas facility to working order, as it awaits Fair Work Commission updates on industrial action at its projects.

A delegation of eight WA-based defence businesses will head to London this week to showcase their products on the world stage alongside Defence Industry Minister Paul Papalia.

Mark Pownall and Jack McGinn discuss a spate of investment in the downstream battery materials sector in Western Australia.

The state’s third-largest vegetable producer and two of its directors have been fined more than $50,000 for using excess water at properties in Perth’s north east.

Roger Cook has backed in the state’s close relationship with its resources industry, amid concerns over the government’s handling of environmental guidelines scrapped in 2019.

Education Minister Tony Buti says a new western suburbs high school is one of several options being considered to address the growing education needs of the area.

Liv Declerck and Jack McGinn discuss an innovative art project making its way from the East Kimberley to Perth.

Perth will officially host an important Australian-Korean bilateral meeting in 2024, Premier Roger Cook has revealed in a speech at this year’s event in Seoul this morning.

Perth basin-focused developer Strike Energy has blamed inefficiencies in the WA gas market on government policy settings, while singling out Beach Energy and Hancock Prospecting.

Offshore Alliance is undertaking industrial action against Chevron at its Wheatstone and Gorgon projects, after negotiations between the two parties failed to deliver a resolution.

Claire Tyrrell and Jack McGinn discuss the portfolio responsibilities of Housing, Planning, Lands and Homelessness Minister John Carey.

The Gascoyne region is now part of Western Australia’s electric vehicle network, with a new fast charger launched in Carnarvon today by Horizon Power.

Woodside Energy will explore the storage of carbon imported from Japan, as part of an ambition to build a carbon capture and storage value chain between the nations.

Woodside Energy has started laying pipe to connect the Scarborough gas field to its onshore Pluto LNG facility, as it progresses the project towards targeted first cargo in 2026.

Industrial action scheduled to start today at Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone facilities has been delayed by 24 hours, the LNG producer and Offshore Alliance have confirmed.

Claire Tyrrell and Jack McGinn discuss developments in the retail property sector.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced new “investment deal teams” to be based in South East Asia, as part of a $95.4 million investment.

Australia’s economy grew by 0.4 per cent in the June quarter, pushed higher by investment and service exports, but export prices experienced their largest fall since 2009.

Jack McGinn and Tom Zaunmayr discuss the growth of a tourism industry in the Pilbara at the hands of Ngarluma and Yindibarndi man Clinton Walker.

Yara Pilbara is unconvinced all producers are meeting domestic gas supply obligations in good faith, joining a chorus to question current supply arrangements.