Your electricity bill reveals a stark political divide: Red-state residents pay less, while blue states gouge their citizens and businesses with exorbitant electric rates.

Almost 100 employees of Iluka Resources were made redundant in December, with the wave of white and blue-collar job cuts linked to a mine suspension near Perth announced three months ago.

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

BIG MINERS SHUNNING AUSTRALIA FOR MORE STABLE ARGENTINA

WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume 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.