WA business news with local consequence.
Business News - WA follows the commercial and political machinery shaping WA. Its briefings move from fuel security and housing targets to mining royalties, property approvals, insurance competition, and infrastructure contracts.
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Business News - WA is a working brief on the forces shaping WA's economy. It is fast when the news calls for speed. The At Close of Business episodes read like a tight afternoon ledger, moving through government funding, competition rulings, fuel planning, property approvals, mining results, and infrastructure contracts without much ceremony. The weekly Mark My Words episodes make more space for context. Mark Pownall and colleagues talk through the week's business and politics with the pace of a newsroom that already knows which details matter. Court rulings receive close attention. The Hancock prospecting dispute, Wright prospecting, DFD Roads, Gina Reinhart's children, East Angeles, and Hope Downs are handled as commercial history as much as legal news. Resources coverage sits naturally beside market pressure. The show follows oil prices, fuel reserves, diesel shipments, gold production, and the way global uncertainty can turn up quickly at a Geraldton service station or inside a WA miner's quarterly numbers. Property is another constant. Housing completions, Key Start lending, Cottesloe and Fremantle deals, Augusta approvals, ECU Mount Lawley, and East Perth apartment projects all appear as part of the state's wider capacity problem. Politics is never far away. Roger Cook, Anthony Albanese, Reda Safioti, Amber Jade Sanderson, John Carey, and Basil are discussed through funding, regulation, transparency, and delivery. The tone is plainspoken and deadline-driven. It favours reported facts, figures, names, and locations over grand theory. Even the conversational episodes keep returning to what has changed, who is affected, and what the next constraint might be. Business News - WA works best for listeners who follow WA through land, energy, courts, construction, government budgets, and deal flow. It is local business coverage with a strong sense of place. Perth, the Pilbara, the Kimberley, Augusta, Garden Island, Northbridge, Fremantle, Cottesloe, and Geraldton are not background scenery. They are where policy, capital, and supply pressure become visible. The show is especially useful when several apparently separate stories are really touching the same system, such as housing shortages, fuel insecurity, infrastructure demand, and construction supply strain.
Made for: For listeners who follow WA business, politics, property, resources, and infrastructure closely. It fits people who want the state-level details behind major headlines.
What sets it apart: Its strength is WA-specific reporting with names, figures, locations, and commercial context kept close to the surface. Daily headline reads sit beside weekly newsroom discussion, giving both speed and depth without losing the local frame.
Business News provides news, insights and events that connect you to business opportunities in Western Australia. This is our weekly podcast, Business News Background, produced by Lush Digital, in which Mark Pownall (Head of Content) and Mark Beyer (Editor) discuss the news of the week and articles in next week's edition of the newspaper with broadcaster James Lush.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk WA briefing that ties housing pressure to East Perth development and the wider fuel row.
Mark My Words stays focused on WA business and politics, starting with housing data that points to WA home completions at a two-year low before moving through Pilbara industrial action, a new development at Alcabello Blanco, ECU buying city property, and ADC's East Perth…
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This episode covers recent business news in Western Australia, focusing on record-high gold prices, lithium activity, a failed merger, and property developments.
This episode discusses the current fuel crisis in Australia, driven by Middle East conflicts affecting global oil supply, leading to panic buying and alleged price gouging.
Mark Pownall and Tom Zornmeier examine oil rising about 15 percent to $81 a barrel, Woodside's share price moving from roughly $26 to above $30, and a Geraldton petrol station increasing prices from $1.76 to $2.
Mark Pownall, Nadia Budihajo, Claire Tyrrell and Tom Zornmeier examine a 16-year Hancock Prospecting dispute involving 51 trial days, more than 4,000 documents and a 1,655-page judgment.
This episode covers WA business headlines including $10.7 million funding for a women's shelter program and ACCC scrutiny of IAG's proposed acquisition of RAC's insurance business.
This episode covers business news from Western Australia, focusing on potential tighter fuel restrictions due to the US blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and updates on Genesis Minerals' financial performance.
This episode covers three major business stories in Western Australia: a Supreme Court ruling on iron ore royalties, a government initiative to underwrite property developments, and a joint venture awarded a contract for naval wharf upgrades.
This episode covers WA business headlines including a $10 million government deal to create an emergency diesel stockpile in the Kimberley and approval of an $11 million mixed-use apartment project in Augusta despite local opposition.
This episode covers WA business and political news, including housing completions hitting a two-year low, a fuel crisis, and various local developments and investments.
This episode discusses the impact of the Middle East conflict on global markets and local fuel prices in Western Australia, along with other WA business topics.
This episode covers the Business News Leadership Summit, including insights from speaker Paul Blackburn on government spending and infrastructure, along with upcoming discussions on Parliament's return, a severance package, sports funding transparency, and property deals.