Northern Minerals owns the Browns Range project in Western Australia, a potential source of heavy rare earths dysprosium and terbium that are today mostly produced by China.

A 38-year-old man died in a shark attack off Western Australia on Saturday, the second fatal incident reported in the country this year.

The Offshore Alliance said on Monday the union ​grouping had served notice to strike at Inpex's Ichthys ‌liquefied natural gas facility in northern Australia from May 27, in a move that could worsen already tight global energy supplies.

The group, previously known as the National Socialist Network, will be the second organisation banned under new legislation

The Strait of Hormuz crisis is reshaping global oil flows in ways that would have seemed unusual just months ago. One of the clearest examples is that the US is now shipping crude to Australia, a market that typically relies far more heavily on Asia and the Middle East for supply.

Plans to build Australia’s first Trump Tower have been scrapped just three months after it was announced, with the local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic.”

The iconic tourist destination provides a beautiful view, but also represents a physical record of Earth's climate history