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Rio Tinto has agreed to keep open its troubled Tomago aluminium smelter in return for a Commonwealth-led deal that will provide it with billions of dollars in subsidised power from the Snowy Hydro project and other renewables sources, all firmed by gas.

Mining giant Hancock Prospecting took Christmas decorating to the max with a banner atop its West Perth headquarters depicting chair Gina Rinehart and top executives as cartoons driving haul trucks.

Today, teams from Hancock Prospecting, HanRoy, and Hancock Energy came together for our annual Christmas celebration. A chance to acknowledge another year of hard work and achievement as part of Australia’s most successful private company.

‘If you want to compete, and your economy ends up at risk, you’ve got to make difficult choices,’ said Brandon Craig who questioned whether Australia’s IR, tax and climate targets were at odds with its natural resource ambitions.

BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months

Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart has paid tribute to the little-known engineer behind her multibillion-dollar mining empire.

In 2025 the RFDS has retrieved 60 men, women and children from Rottnest Island.

US energy giant Chevron has warned the Albanese government its looming intervention into the east coast gas market may damage investor confidence, as new modelling shows an urgent pipeline of gas power plants could stall due to unfavourable economics.

A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.

In the next four years Australian enterprises plan massive use of local artificial intelligence, which will require data centres that will explode the demand for electricity.