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The Indigenous business sector is growing, competitive and high quality, Supply Nation's CEO says. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

BusinessPremiumNot a fad: Billions spent with Indigenous businesses

Indigenous businesses are continuing to grow as their goods and services are in high demand from government, corporate and non-profit organisations.

Keira Jenkins

SRG Global chief executive David MacGeorge.

Mergers and AcquisitionsCommentsPremiumSRG Global goes to sea with Total AMS buy for up to $115m

The purchase of the marine infrastructure group will boost SRG’s annual revenues by $200m, add 500 workers to its roster and deliver shore bases in Fremantle, WA’s North West and Gladstone in Queensland.

Sean Smith

Mark Norwell is the departing CEO of Perenti.

MiningCommentsPremiumPerenti on the hunt for a new boss

Mark Norwell is unexpectedly set to finish up as the chief executive of mining services contractor Perenti next year, with his successor yet to be appointed.

Adrian Rauso

Vection MD Gianmarco Biagi

ContractingCommentsPremiumVection Technologies soars on $22m NATO customer win

Shares in Perth 3D modelling and extended reality firm Vection Technologies gained nearly 30 per cent after locking in a substantial suite of work with a NATO-approved customer. 

Simone Grogan

CBH Group's upgraded Broomehill receival site.

ContractingPremiumCBH’s $22m rapid rail build blue wends through Supreme Court

The State’s biggest grain handler is refusing to back down despite a big setback in a knotty $22 million contract quarrel over the build of a rapid loading station in the Great Southern.

Simone Grogan

Shares in Mader Group have added more than 50 per cent over the past six months.

MiningCommentsPremiumMader Group backer cashes in $25 million of shares

WA company promoter Craig Burton has sold three million shares, reducing his stake in the mining vehicle maintenance group to 16.2 per cent.

Sean Smith

NRW boss Jules Pemberton with Fredon CEO Scott Olsen and former chairman and major shareholder Alan Lipman.

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NRW stock touches boom-time high after striking $200m deal

NRW shares visited highs not seen since WA’s 2012 mining boom after revealing a $200 million deal set to expose the contractor to new work on data centres, defence and national infrastructure builds. 

Simone Grogan and Daniel Newell

Lights on at the Mt Marion lithium mine.

MiningMinRes keen to sell assets after $896m loss and cash crunch

Mineral Resources’ key project is hitting its stride but flogging off mines, another truck rollover, and uncertainty about Chris Ellison’s tenure — and his voice — shows the chaos is yet to leave.

Adrian Rauso

The US division returned to growth in the June half, with revenue growing 8 per cent on the first six months.

ContractingPremiumMader America great again as group eyes $1b haul

The mining fleet services company is now tipping it will finish its five-year strategic plan by increasing revenue at least 15 per cent in 2026, aided by a rebound in Canada and the US.

Sean Smith

Perenti chair Diane Smith Gander.

ContractingPremiumPerenti fatality free but slides on key safety metric

Investors have welcomed a bolstered balance sheet from Perenti, but the listed contractor has had to assure it will ‘remain vigilant’ after failing to reduce injury frequency rates during the year.

Simone Grogan

NRW Holdings - operational pics. Dalgaranga Picture NRW Holdings 21/11/2018

ContractingPremiumNRW left with $77m profit hit from Whyalla debacle

NRW has copped a hefty blow to its 2025 profit numbers after being left with no choice but to write off the $110 million the contractor is still fighting to pry from the Whyalla Steelworks wreckage. 

Simone Grogan

Data centres are accounting for increasing work at Southern Cross Electrical Engineering.

ContractingCommentsPremiumFast-growing SCEE says ‘it’s a great time to be in business’

The electrical contractor’s full-year profit marched 44.5 per cent higher to a record $31.7 million as increased work servicing infrastructure and commercial developments sent revenue up 45 per cent to $801m.

Sean Smith

VEEM manufacturing process in Canning Vale, WA.

ManufacturingPremiumVeem stock on the up after landing $65m subs contract

Shares in family-controlled manufacturing firm Veem have surged after landing another six years’ worth of work with Australian submarine builder ASC. 

Simone Grogan

Iluka Resources’ monazite stockpile at Eneabba.

MiningPremiumIluka claims mine camp dues owed on $600m build

Mineral sands extractor Iluka Resources has assured an upcoming project in New South Wales will start on time despite running into a scrap over delivery of a 164-person accommodation build.

Simone Grogan

Acciona Desal Plant Roger Cook Bede Noonan 15 July 2025

InfrastructurePremiumAcciona eyes WA power and defence builds

The national boss of contracting giant Acciona has knocked back worries about a Western Australian worker shortage as he reveals the company’s plans to chase AUKUS work and energy transition projects.

Matt Mckenzie

Andrew Ellison.

MiningCommentsAndrew Ellison agrees to cancel RDG performance rights

Chris Ellison’s younger brother Andrew has agreed to bin 13.3 million performance rights attached to the ailing Mineral Resources subsidiary he runs. 

Adrian Rauso

Monadelphous’ office in Victoria Park.

ContractingPremiumMonadelphous books two contracts for $100m

Listed engineer Monadelphous has booked two contracts including work at Shell’s new Crux platform off the WA coast.

Simone Grogan

Rio Tinto, First train of Iron Ore from Brockman 4 Iron Ore mine.

ContractingPremiumAnother win for NRW at Rio’s Pilbara pipeline

Belmont-based NRW has added another Rio Tinto contract to the books, this time worth $167 million at the mining giant’s Brockman Syncline 1 development. 

Simone Grogan

The Hope Downs 1 mine.

MiningPremiumNRW wins $157m Rio contract

NRW Holdings is reaping the rewards of Rio Tinto’s iron ore replenishment pipeline with a second contract from the mining giant in the space of three months.

Adrian Rauso

Austal chief executive Paddy Gregg at its facility in Mobile, Alabama.

BoardsCommentsPremiumWA shipbuilder Austal names banking boss to join board

Henderson naval shipbuilder Austal has picked former Credit Suisse Australia boss Richard Gibb to join its board as a non-executive director.

Cheyanne Enciso

The Agnew proccessing plant and mine. Gold Fields

MiningPremiumPerenti inks $500m renewal with Gold Fields

Perenti’s underground mining services division has locked in a new contract at nearly double the annual price of its previous extension during the pre-COVID era.

Adrian Rauso

NRW has won a contract for infrastructure work at at East Pilbara minesite.

ContractingPremiumNRW fears $113m Whyalla debt now in doubt

NRW will cop a $113 million impairment charge after the contractor revealed it may now lose rights to property thought to be pegged as security over unpaid work at the collapsed Whyalla Steelworks. 

Simone Grogan

The listed contractor said it required “regular weekly payment instalments” and provided those services up until February 19 when administrators at KordaMentha were called in at OneSteel.

ContractingPremiumNRW halts trading to suss out Whyalla Port claims

NRW has ducked into a trading halt while assesses new legislation that could threaten security the contractor holds over assets locked up in the collapse of the Whyalla Steelworks in South Australia.

Simone Grogan

Byrnecut Group executive chairman Steve Coughlan.

ContractingCommentsPremiumMining contractor trio share in $35m payout bonanza

Dividends have grown more than fourfold for Byrnecut’s backers as the underground mining contractor basks in gold’s bull run.

Adrian Rauso