The Pilbara
Report urges overhaul of WA’s Aboriginal heritage processes amid consultant warning
A major review into native title and cultural heritage approvals in Western Australia’s resources sector has urged more than two dozen recommendations as industry groups warn of consultants “clipping the ticket” as part of the process.
- Michael Philipps
Latest
‘Lipstick on a pig’: WA’s ‘Seven Cities’ regional housing plan panned
Critics say a plan to inject more than 500 new houses into WA’s Government Regional Officer Housing Program using money from the state’s biggest miners was an admission Labor had dropped the ball on regional development.
- Hamish Hastie
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- Gina Rinehart
Rinehart ordered to pay hundreds of millions to rival mining family
The billionaire descendants of iron ore pioneers Lang Hancock and Peter Wright have been locked in a bitter dispute over mining royalties for more than a decade.
- Heather McNeill and Rebecca Peppiatt
Tropical Cyclone Narelle news updates: Tropical Cyclone Narelle downgraded to category 2
Follow our live coverage as the re-intensified cyclone tracks down the WA coast.
Aboriginal group launches legal action in push to clean up Wittenoom’s asbestos
Western Australia’s government is facing legal action from an Aboriginal corporation to clean up asbestos contamination from the Wittenoom mine.
- Hamish Hastie
Fears for Ningaloo, World Heritage sites in pushback against Santos’ drilling plans
According to Santos’ own modelling, the “remote” worst-case scenario for hydrocarbon spills could reach as far south as Shark Bay, or a few hundred kilometres south of Timor-Leste.
- Hamish Hastie
- Opinion
- Environmental protection
Australia’s environment minister should be fighting for nature – not faster approvals
Nature is well behind the eight-ball when it comes to industry, and industry-first rhetoric only reinforces that reality.
- Matt Roberts
One of Australia’s worst pests is on the march to the Pilbara. But we have a ‘unique’ chance to stop them
A new study predicts that without containment efforts, cane toads will infest up to 75 per cent of the Pilbara within three decades.
- Holly Thompson
The surging commodity that now accounts for a quarter of WA’s mining workforce
With the price of gold surging to a record high of US$4000 per ounce earlier this month, WAtoday looks at the vital role the precious metal continues to play within the WA economy.
- Michael Philipps
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- Police
Police turn to tech to identify ‘space debris’ found on outback WA minesite
Experts believe the debris, which was found on a remote mine site’s access road on Saturday, is part of a Chinese rocket.
- Hannah Murphy