Your top WA budget questions answered: Our reporters explain the details
Over the past few days, you’ve been sending through your burning budget questions. Here to answer them is WAtoday state politics reporter Hamish Hastie and business reporter Peter Milne.
- by Hamish Hastie and Peter Milne
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What West Australians think of the state budget
Amid all the chest-beating spin from the government, each line item in the budget will have a real impact on West Australians. So we asked them what they thought.
- by Hamish Hastie, Sarah Brookes, Holly Thompson, Jesinta Burton and Peter Milne
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WA budget
WA budget gets more from ore as Saffioti promises to diversify
“A big challenge for us is to make sure we continue to diversify our economy to ensure we have a strong revenue base in the future,” Treasurer Rita Saffioti said.
- by Peter Milne
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Alcoa investigation
WA government overrode water supply warnings to approve Alcoa mining
The WA environment regulator opposed Alcoa’s mining but proposed safeguards if it went ahead. The Cook government ignored the first recommendation and watered down the second.
- by Peter Milne
WA government to spend $10m monitoring Alcoa’s mining near Perth’s dams
Alcoa’s troubled bauxite mining in WA’s jarrah forest will have extra government scrutiny costing $10.5 million over four years as the US miner seeks to repair its tarnished environmental credentials.
- by Peter Milne
Collie’s Premier Coal back in black with huge revenue jump
WA’s biggest coal miner Premier Coal has returned to profit after an $84 million loss the year before on the back of increased prices for its fuel sales.
- by Peter Milne
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Nickel
WA job losses: 330 more nickel jobs go, this time at Ravensthorpe
The torrent of cheap nickel from Indonesia has claimed more Australian jobs with Canadian miner First Quantum to put its WA mine into care and maintenance.
- by Peter Milne
Charged up: WA town to home Australia’s biggest battery
The expansion will let the state’s biggest power grid store midday solar power for use in the evening, and will make it Australia’s largest energy storage site.
- by Peter Milne
Biggest climate revolt rocks Woodside as investors turn up heat on emissions
Australia’s largest oil and gas company has been hit with an unprecedented investor uprising demanding greater action on climate change.
- by Nick Toscano and Peter Milne
Mental health behind WA miners’ move towards more even-time FIFO rosters
A study into the mental health of FIFO workers called for them to spend no more than half their time on site. Six years on, WA’s mining sector appears to have listened.
- by Peter Milne
Drying and dying: South West forests face potential ‘collapse’
From Albany to Kalbarri, native vegetation which has evolved to cope with heat and little water is failing to withstand the extra burden from climate change.
- by Peter Milne