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While Australia’s per capita economy mostly shrinks, Canada has begun shock reversals of the very policies dragging both nations down – and the results are already showing.

Reflect. Respect. Celebrate. in the city at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Australia Day.

Billionaire Gina Rinehart has told a gathering in Wagga that net zero, excessive regulation and high taxes have has hurt the mining sector and that ordinary Australians will bear the consequences.

Execs and long-term staff members from HPPL, Hancock Iron Ore, Hancock Energy and Hanroy gathered at Tad and family’s home.

Bannister Downs, run by third generation dairy farmers, Sue and Mat Daubney, is the cream of the crop in a struggling industry.

With 2025 all but in the rear view mirror, we take a look at the West Australians who dominated headlines, were influential and had us talking.

We hope your day is filled with joy, laughter and a little something delicious.

Meet Brie 🐄

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will drain vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by.

Regular readers of this column with a critical interest in the renewables transition – differentiated from those who are blinkered true believers – will know that the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is the Achilles heel of the Albanese Government’s strategy.