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Woodside floats Browse revival after James Price axing

Woodside is exploring ways to revive the shelved Browse LNG project as it seeks long-term solutions to keep gas flowing to the North West Shelf venture. Three years after axing the controversial James Price Point gas plant proposal and five months after calling off a floating facility, chief executive Peter Coleman's team is looking anew...

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Jury still out on East Kimberley cashless welfare cards

There are conflicting reports about the effectiveness of cashless welfare cards in the East Kimberley, with some reporting a decline in binge drinking and others claiming there has been "dirty dealing" and "rorting" going on. The Federal Government issued the bank-cards to around 1,200 welfare recipients in Kununurra and ...

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Gina Rinehart ponders bid for S. Kidman pastoral company

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart is poised to enter the race for the S. Kidman & Co pastoral empire, alongside Chinese conglomerate Shanghai CRED Real Estate, with a joint bid expected to top $300 million. The billionaire's entry into the sales process would be the first serious ­attempt by an Australian during the most recent battle...

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Sheffield to raise up to A$17.1 million in oversubscribed institutional placement

Sheffield  Resources  Limited  ("Sheffield"  "the  Company")  (ASX:SFX)  is  pleased  to  announce  it  has received commitments to raise up to a total of $17.1 million (before costs) through a placement of 32.9
million  fully  paid  ordinary...

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Sluggy McSlugface no more: sea slug named for fly-in, fly-out mining workers

A multicoloured sea slug discovered off the coast of Western Australia has been named for the state's fly-in, fly-out mining workforce after a judging panel ruled that Sluggy McSlugface breached the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The slug, which is a species of nudibranch, was discovered in 2000 off the coast of Dampier, ...

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McGowan expelled from Broome High

There were awkward scenes in Broome [last week], as Opposition Leader Mark McGowan was asked to leave the area in front of Broome Senior High School in the middle of a press conference. In the midst of a hot and humid day in which political staffers from Perth sweated it out in their city garb McGowan called a press conference at the carpark...

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