29 . 12 . 2025
The best way to start the morning of Chrissie Eve, Tad Watroba’s Christmas party!
Execs and long-term staff members from HPPL, Hancock Iron Ore, Hancock Energy and Hanroy gathered at Tad and family’s home.
29 . 12 . 2025
Cash cow: WA dairy booms thanks to billionaire Gina Rinehart’s backing
Bannister Downs, run by third generation dairy farmers, Sue and Mat Daubney, is the cream of the crop in a struggling industry.
27 . 12 . 2025
Year in review 2025: The influential people who got WA talking in 2025
With 2025 all but in the rear view mirror, we take a look at the West Australians who dominated headlines, were influential and had us talking.
25 . 12 . 2025
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas. 💙🎁
We hope your day is filled with joy, laughter and a little something delicious.
13 . 12 . 2025
Green iron water guzzler
WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will drain vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by.
13 . 12 . 2025
Paul Murray: WA’s renewable energy gamble risks blackouts and leaves the power grid exposed
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.
12 . 12 . 2025
PM pledges cheap power to keep Tomago open, but cost remains hidden
Rio Tinto has agreed to keep open its troubled Tomago aluminium smelter in return for a Commonwealth-led deal that will provide it with billions of dollars in subsidised power from the Snowy Hydro project and other renewables sources, all firmed by gas.
12 . 12 . 2025
Caricature of life
Mining giant Hancock Prospecting took Christmas decorating to the max with a banner atop its West Perth headquarters depicting chair Gina Rinehart and top executives as cartoons driving haul trucks.
11 . 12 . 2025
🎄 Celebrating the 2025 Hancock Christmas Gathering 🎄
Today, teams from Hancock Prospecting, HanRoy, and Hancock Energy came together for our annual Christmas celebration. A chance to acknowledge another year of hard work and achievement as part of Australia’s most successful private company.
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
