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MiningCommentsSGH hits fresh record, looks towards a ‘simplified’ FY25

SGH chief executive Ryan Stokes says the diversified business is on track for strong earnings growth this financial year while distilling its strategic direction down to two themes.

Adrian Rauso

LAND FUNDPremiumNationals promise $1b headworks fund to drive development

Nationals WA leader Shane Love has promised to establish a $1 billion fund to “remove infrastructure barriers” in developing regional areas if elected in 2025.

Melissa Sheil

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REVEALED: Perth Airport’s plans for stunning upgrade

Perth Airport’s boss has promised passengers will be in the ‘right place all the time’ when $5b redevelopment works are finally complete early next decade.

Claire Sadler

ROAD SAFETYPremiumHow many trucks has the $225m Ring Road diverted?

Traffic monitors have revealed more than 200 trucks have been diverted daily from central Albany roads since the opening of the ring road.

Melissa Sheil

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Receivers grab Rockingham waste project

Receivers seize control of East Rockingham Waste to Energy Project with eyes to flog trouble-plagued venture.

Neale Prior and Simone Grogan

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumParking fee machine a billion-dollar business

The private Perth company which became one of Australia’s biggest parking providers has revealed exactly how much cash is made from fees.

Matt Mckenzie

BLUE GUMSPremiumBlue gums removed from Eyre Park due to carpark damage

Four decades-old blue gums were cut down in Middleton Beach earlier this month after the city discovered their roots were damaging a carpark and posing a risk to the public.

Melissa Sheil

InfrastructurePremiumMajor southern port faces strike action

Industrial action is looming at a south coast port after workers from the Australian Maritime Officers Union voted to down tools.

Matt Mckenzie

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumOpposition calls for Kwinana upgrade as boat backlog grows

The State Opposition has backed calls for urgent investment at the Kwinana harbour, with Government-owned operator Fremantle Ports unable to lock in a date to fix the problem.

Matt Mckenzie

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WA’s shipbuilding hub to create 10,000 jobs

Tens of billions of dollars will be poured into Henderson shipyard to create a new defence precinct capable of building modern naval ships and maintaining Australia’s nuclear-powered submarines.

Katina Curtis and Jessica Page

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumTraffic chaos choking roads into Kwinana’s industrial hub

Two recent traffic accidents that seriously injured local workers have highlighted ‘severe’ congestion problems in Perth’s major industrial hub, the Kwinana Industries Council has warned.

Matt Mckenzie

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumWhole loader trouble at Kwinana port leaves exports in limbo

Exports through Kwinana Bulk Terminal have been stalled for months because the equipment used to load ships is out of action.

Matt Mckenzie

EnergyPremiumWhitby says Horizon Power breaches “disappointing”

Regional energy supplier Horizon Power is in hot water after auditors found the Government-owned utility did not comply with rules designed to protect competition.

Matt Mckenzie

ContractingPremiumDecmil tasked with $61m Marble Bar Road upgrade for HanRoy

Macmahon’s newly-acquired subsidiary Decmil has landed a $61 million contract to deliver much-needed upgrades to part of a critical freight route in the Pilbara.

Simone Grogan

InfrastructureCommentsPremiumShip hits the fan in crazy Fremantle Ports traffic jams

WA businesses are paying close to $900,000 of ‘parking fees’ every time a ship visits Kwinana because of huge delays at the port.

Matt Mckenzie

Commercial PropertyCommentsPremium$420m for three regions that can ease Perth’s housing crisis

Housing supply could be boosted by about 90,000 homes in three key Perth growth corridors through a $420 million infrastructure program, according to the Urban Development Institute of Australia in WA.

Kim Macdonald

AviationCommentsPremiumTake off as super fund giant swoops on Perth Airport

Giant industry fund AustralianSuper is set to become the third biggest shareholder in Perth Airport in a $500 million sale.

Neale Prior

MiningPremiumTaps on! BCI Minerals’ $1.4b Pilbara project worth its salt

Australia’s first salt project in over two decades is well on the path to production in a massive coup for both the State’s north and efforts to diversify the WA economy. 

Simone Grogan

WaterCommentsPremiumVysarn taps into $50b pipeline of east coast water works

Perth-based Vysarn will tap into what it calls a ‘once-in-a-generation water infrastructure boom’ on Australia’s east coast with the purchase of a Victorian consulting business.

Daniel Newell

WA newsCommentsPremiumMajor Perth Airport makeover a headache for passengers

Travellers at Perth Airport are being warned about delays as a $5 billion project to give it an overhaul to allow for the growing tourism industry begins.

Lisa Thomas

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Driven crazy: The 20 intersections that make Perth see red

Sitting in the car, waiting for a green light. It’s frustrating. It’s rage-inducing. It’s still costing WA’s economy more than $2 billion annually. It’s congestion. 

Dylan Caporn

InfrastructurePremiumRoe 2.0: Battlelines set for Westport road link

The State Government has been urged to rethink the Westport outer harbour project as conservationists warn the impact could be ‘worse than Roe 8’.

Matt Mckenzie

EconomyCommentsPremiumWestport: Sign new Kwinana harbour won’t open until 2042

The huge proposed Westport outer harbour development may not open until 2042 — 25 years after plans to build the Roe 8 road link to Fremantle Port were shredded.

Matt Mckenzie

AviationCommentsPremiumFlying high! Perth Airport hits huge new passenger record

The return of international airlines has propelled Perth Airport to a record year, with the hub cracking 16 million passengers for the first time last financial year.

Sean Smith