Jim Hawtin

THE Western Australian Government has weighed into the debate over Indonesia flour millers possibly slashing their Australian wheat orders.

SLOWLY parts of the WA Indigenous community are emerging to commercialise the synergies between the WA mining industry and Indigenous Australians.

NEW and expanding resource processing facilities in WA signal an important new direction in the State’s minerals and energy industry, according to a new report.

THE State’s farmers stand to lose a “significant” portion of the $500 million wheat trade with Indonesia if the Federal Government continues its support of lower-cost Australian flour exports into Indonesia, according to a local consultant to Indonesia’s

EVERY Christmas a Chinese lady, also a shareholder of Croesus Mining, buys her grandchildren shares as a gift. She says it is like buying them an education, letting them own shares in companies.

WORSLEY Alumina refinery – a joint venture of BHP Billiton, Kobe Alumina Associates and Nissho Iwai – is likely to receive approval to spend $225 million to boost annual output by 250,000 tonnes per year while expansions of up to 4.5 million tonnes/year..

THE Commonwealth Government has maintained its support for an $800 million commercial space port on Christmas Island despite a series of setbacks that have beset the project since it was announced three years ago.

INDIGENOUS Land Use Agreements such as the one signed earlier this week between Hamersley Iron and the Eastern Guruma Aboriginal Community are being touted as the way forward.

THE Western Australian rock lobster industry is hopeful a short-term tariff deal recently struck with the European Union will develop a fledgling trade with the epicurean market into a major export earner for WA.