02 . 01 . 2026
Canada’s policy U-turns on immigration and energy offer lesson for Australia
While Australia’s per capita economy mostly shrinks, Canada has begun shock reversals of the very policies dragging both nations down – and the results are already showing.
01 . 01 . 2026
Australia Day 2026
Reflect. Respect. Celebrate. in the city at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Australia Day.
01 . 01 . 2026
Billionaire Gina Rinehart tells Wagga that net zero’s causing a huge decline in investment in Australia
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has told a gathering in Wagga that net zero, excessive regulation and high taxes have has hurt the mining sector and that ordinary Australians will bear the consequences.
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.
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
