In some sad news for Karratha, Solar Space Technologies (SST), a high-tech innovative start-up I have been working with for the last year, has had to cancel Karratha as only...

A capped cost for air flights between regional centres in Western Australia and Perth was instigated by the State Labor Government on the 1st of July 2022.  When announced, the...

In spite of the huge investment in wind and solar power production across the world, in 2024, global emissions rose by more than 1 per cent. In 2023, they rose...

The North West Defence Alliance (NWDA) has been extremely effective lobbying the Federal and State governments over the last 5 years to recognise the economic and security importance of the...

The first three Pluto Train 2 modules for Woodside Energy’s Scarborough Energy Project have arrived in Karratha. Fabricated by Bechtel in Indonesia, the modules weigh a combined total of 4000...

On Monday Feb 19, Chris Bowen, Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy visited Murujuga in Karratha to confirm a $140 M investment in the Pilbara Hydrogen Hub. This money...

Karratha has become the premier location for conferences in the Pilbara and outback Australia. Just recently, the National Economic Development Conference 2023 was held in our town – quite a...

Welcome to this ancient land, trod by Aboriginal peoples for tens of thousands of years – the land of the Ngarluma people on which we are here gathered – and...

It was disheartening when a local barber rang me recently to say he really doesn’t want to, but he had to leave town because he couldn’t afford a doubling of...

Hydrogen is wonderful stuff! With the highest energy per unit mass of any fuel – nearly three times that of petrol – it can be made out of water, and...

Thank you, Kerry for your always interesting Welcome to Country! I would like to acknowledge the Ngarluma people and their Elders on whose land we are gathered today. Ladies and...

We all know how hard it is to get workers in the Pilbara – and unlike most of Australia, this has been a problem for a long time in the...

Jack Renault was known to many of us in Karratha and I thank the RSL for giving me the opportunity to say a few words at this memorial service: it...

We are all familiar with issues that regularly occur in Karratha and other resource-dominated towns across the country when the economy hots up and housing availability falls, while prices rise....

In February this year, Karratha was chosen by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) as one of 15 Regional Hydrogen Technology Clusters across the country. Last Thursday we had the formal...