As the McGowan Government prepares to put its stamp on regional development, residents in regional Western Australia face a nervous wait.
Since its establishment in 2008, Royalties for Regions has delivered more than $7 billion in funding to regional areas, generated by a quarantine placed on 25 per cent of mining royalty revenue.
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The company planning to build Australia's largest prawn farm has received a recommended approval from the Northern Territory's Environment Protection Authority (EPA), to proceed with its first stage of development.
The tick from the EPA is a significant step forward for construction to start on the $1.9 billion Project Sea Dragon ... |
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Bill Laister has been in funds management since 1989, getting a taste for investing in the most rambunctious environs of the analogue age.
The Contango Asset Management senior portfolio manager started out as an operator on the trading floor, or as he puts it, "one of the guys that was screaming at the chalkies". For the Liverpo... |
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Inequalities in the native title system are limiting the flow of benefits to traditional owners from agreements with governments and industry, a new report suggests.
The report, released by Curtin University and the University of Western Australia this week, found that, even after native title had been recognised, the weak bargaining posi... |
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The liquidator maintaining the Cockatoo Island mine site is negotiating with an interested party to buy the iron ore project as traditional owners fear a lack of attention could lead to an environmental catastrophe.
It has been more than two years since Pluton Resources collapsed into receivership.
But Bryan Hughes of Perth-based Pitc... |
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