Perry Williams

Sydney

Business Editor at The Australian

Business Editor at The Australian. Dad, Arsenal fan. Email [email protected]

Articles

WCN hits 63m at 2.23% copper

2 days ago | theaustralian.com.au | Geoff Chambers |Sarah Ison |Perry Williams |David Murray

White Cliff receives latest results from RC drilling at the Rae project Highlights include 63m at 2.23% copper Discussions continue with contracting partners for an airborne geophysical survey at Danvers Special report: Assay results from a recent RC drilling campaign at White Cliff’s Rae project continue to exceed expectations, confirming a shallow, high-grade copper system as the explorer works to prove extensions to mineralisation.
MTM locks-in site for demo plant

2 days ago | theaustralian.com.au | Geoff Chambers |Sarah Ison |Perry Williams |David Murray

MTM Critical Metals locks in 5ha pre-permitted site The location will host MTM’s first US Flash Joule Heating metal recovery plantMTM planning to commission FJH demonstration plant by year-end 2025Special report: MTM has chosen an industrial-ready location to host its first US Flash Joule Heating (FJH) recovery plant, serving as the base for future commercial operations and R&D activities.
CEOs deflated after Trump's Liberation Day surprise

1 month ago | futures.tradingcharts.com | Perry Williams |Brad Thompson

Apr 03, 2025 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --Woodside Energy's CEO Meg O'Neil says the Trump administration's reciprocal tariffs regime will have a ripple effect across the global economy, which will in turn result in higher costs. Rio Tinto's head of iron ore Simon Trott says the tariffs regime could potentially prompt the global resources group to accelerate the development of US projects such as the Resolution copper mine.
Election 2025: Dutton gas plan will drop prices, says BlueScope

1 month ago | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams |Colin Packham

You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Give us your feedback. You can now listen to The Australian's articles. Australia’s largest steelmaker, BlueScope, has backed Peter Dutton’s election plan to bring down gas prices through a reservation scheme as business chiefs say Anthony Albanese must come clean on Labor’s ability to meet its goal of doubling renewable energy by 2030.
Sanjeev Gupta hits back in InfraBuild court spat; Ben Brazil; FitzWalter Capital Partners

1 month ago | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams

Sanjeev Gupta’s InfraBuild has attacked the Ben Brazil-led private equity firm FitzWalter over its demand for an immediate $800m repayment from GFG Alliance, describing its lawsuit as “spurious” and calling for the case to be dismissed. FitzWalter purchased bonds in InfraBuild Australia, owned by Mr Gupta and the country’s largest processor and distributor of long-steel products, but took legal action claiming there had been a fundamental change of control in the company.
Not even summer, with one warm week, and the Australian grid is on the verge of blackouts

Nov 25, 2024 | joannenova.com.au | Jo Nova |Perry Williams

By Jo NovaIt’s not even summer and the Australian grid is having heart palpitations. The Blob are in concert — blackouts might be at hand, and they want us to blame the heat (it’s code for climate change). Let’s get a grip, we’re only talking about a Sydney forecast of 33°C (all of 91F). The ABC calls this “sweltering” and files it under “extreme weather events”. Channel Nine call it a “major heatwave”, which it might be if it were London.
Why Aussie iron mining big dogs are still smiling, despite China’s housing market crisis

Mar 24, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Josh Chiat |Perry Williams |Yaroslav Trofimov |Sune Engel Rasmussen

China’s property crisis continues to bite for Australian iron ore producers, but a new price prediction will give big players a reason to grin. ANZ’s commodity strategists Daniel Hynes and Soni Kumari say iron ore should trade between US$90-110/t for the remainder of 2024, levels that would keep iron ore profits relatively safe, even as China’s real estate sector continues to stumble.
Rayleigh step-selection functions and connections to continuous-time mechanistic movement models

Feb 10, 2024 | pubs.usgs.gov | Joseph Eisaguirre |Perry Williams |Mevin B. Hooten

The process known as ecological diffusion emerges from a first principles view of animal movement, but ecological diffusion and other partial differential equation models can be difficult to fit to data. Step-selection functions (SSFs), on the other hand, have emerged as powerful practical tools for ecologists studying the movement and habitat selection of animals.
Al Gore praises new Qld Premier Steven Miles as ‘climate champion’

Dec 16, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams |Ellen Ransley

Steven Miles promises lift in emission reduction targetsQueensland's newly appointed Premier Steven Miles has put climate change at the top of his agenda as he promised a dramatic change to the state's climate policy. Video Player is loading. Remaining Time -0:00Current Time 0:00Duration 0:00Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. End of dialog window. This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
‘Cry me a river!’: Trainers’ outrage over jockey pay is ridiculous

Dec 6, 2023 | theaustralian.com.au | Perry Williams

Every Thursday, News Corp Australia’s national racing editor Matt Williams and senior racing writer Ben Dorries chat all things horse racing. MW: Benny, one word. Wow. We created a social media storm with my suggestion jockeys should get more money. At last count, our column reached about 500,000 people on social media. Job done. Most disagreed with me, but the widespread negative reaction from some trainers was mind-blowing.