Julie Shuttleworth

Fortescue Metals Group has been included in a worldwide gender equality index created by data services giant Bloomberg.

SPECIAL REPORT: In business and philanthropy, executive diversity and on the sports field, it has been quite a year for Andrew Forrest.

The number of women in executive leadership positions across Australia’s largest listed companies is slowly increasing according to a new report, with Emeco Holdings, Wesfarmers and South32 the top performers for Western Australia.

The state government has brought forward Western Australia’s renewable hydrogen targets by a decade and made a $22 million investment to fuel the sector.

Fortescue Metals Group has substantially increased its final dividend after posting a record annual profit, with company founder and chairman Andrew Forrest getting nearly $2 billion in dividends.

Fortescue Metals Group has brought forward its target date for being carbon neutral, with the company spruiking green hydrogen while also talking down the future of gas.

Woodside Petroleum and Fortescue Metals Group have announced separate agreements today with major Japanese companies to assess production of green ammonia in Tasmania.

Former Artrage chief executive Marcus Canning and Fortescue deputy chief executive Julie Shuttleworth were among the Western Australians recognised by the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group is accumulating tenements near the coastline around Carnarvon, with applications lodged for more than 50 blocks in recent weeks.

Fortescue Metals Group is targeting net zero scope 3 emissions by 2040, which covers its entire value chain, including its customers’ crude steel manufacturing.

Fortescue’s green hydrogen arm has bought a 60 per cent stake in Netherlands-based High yield Energy Technologies Group (HyET).

Fortescue Future Industries has acquired the commercial assets of US-based start up Xergy for an undisclosed amount to form a new hydrogen technology development entity.

Fortescue Metals Group will acquire a UK-based engineering firm connected to late F1 team owner Frank Williams in a bid to bring race-bred battery technology to its iron ore fleet.

Henderson-based Matrix Composites and Engineering will collaborate with Fortescue Future Industries to develop equipment and materials technologies to support the business' green hydrogen plans.

Perth companies OncoRes Medical and PhosEnergy are among the latest recipients of federal government research grants, with OncoRes also looking to close a private capital raising.

Fortescue has announced a raft of changes at the top end of the business, including Andrew Forrest stepping in as interim iron ore boss.

Fortescue Metals Group has delivered record iron ore shipments of 189 million tonnes for the financial year, the last with outgoing chief executive Elizabeth Gaines at the helm.

Inflation and sluggish wage growth has barely affected pay for many of WA's top executives.

Fortescue global growth director Julie Shuttleworth has left the organisation after more than a decade, the latest high-profile departure from the Forrest empire’s group of businesses.