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Perth-based Veris has been subcontracted for works at the Royal Australian Navy's military base in Western Australia, while also winning projects in Victoria and NSW.

Syrah Resources is raising funds from a $56 million placement and convertible notes deal with major shareholder AustralianSuper to progress its US and Mozambique graphite operations.

Today's board moves wrap includes Gordon Toll, Athan Lekkas, and John Ciganek.

The board of The Agency Group has urged shareholders to ignore a proposal by an entity associated with the real estate company's ex-director and major shareholder.

ASX-listed Macmahon Holdings has secured a $250 million mining contract in Queensland and gained a $20 million extension in works in WA.

Today's board moves wrap includes Alexander Sundich, Chris Sutherland, Brenda Berlin, and Peter Coleman.

Andrew Forrest's Tattarang is set to invest more than $15 million in Toronto-listed Noront Resources.

Jetstar will restart direct flights between Melbourne and Margaret River in March, one year after the COVID-19 pandemic had iced the route.

Today's board moves wrap includes Peter Kane, Valentine Chitalu, Paul McKenzie, Graeme Robertson, Damian Black, and Bill Oliver.

Brett Cohen has been appointed partner-in-charge at Clayton Utz's Perth office, while Justin Audcent has been promoted to partner Perth corporate finance at RSM.

KalNorth Gold Mines has agreed to sell its Lindsays project in Western Australia for $5 million, following a strategic review.

Today's board moves wrap includes Justine Passaportis, Strati Gregoriadis, and Stephen Hewitt-Dutton.

Today's board moves wrap includes Avi Sthapak, Stefanie Wilkinson, Caroline Cox, Geof Stapledon, and Bill Hobba.

SWAN Systems has taken out a top prize at Rabobank's 2020 startup awards, which recognises the achievements of global food and agriculture entrepreneurs.

Matrix Composites & Engineering was trading 20 per cent higher this morning after announcing a new technology agreement with oil and gas major Woodside Petroleum.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Jeff Burch, Dixie Marshall, Paul Coghlan, Kylie Judd, Tony Goodsell, Ashleigh D'Alessandro and Sarah Russell.

A new study has found 97 per cent of Australian employers believe there are major benefits in hiring people living with disability.

Integrated energy company UON has taken out the top prize at Business News's inaugural RISE Business Awards as the Western Australian Business of the Year.

It's been less than three years since Suzanne Dodds launched Complete Home Filtration, which allows customers to access filtered water from every tap on their property.

Today's board moves wrap include James Wilson, Yakov Temov, Simon Whybrow, Nicki Farley, Robin Romero, Joseph Caruso, and Anastasios Arima.

Subiaco-based New World Resources has secured $10 million from a share placement to fast-track a drilling program at the company's high-grade copper project in the US.

Woodside has hailed the benefits of Amazon Web Services computing infrastructure on the same day the state government signed a deal with AWS.

Multiplex boss Chris Palandri will be chair of Scitech, following Tony Joyner's announcement he would step down after serving in the role for eight years.

Household spending rocketed up 11.7 per cent in WA in the September quarter, while national GDP grew 3.3 per cent.

Today's board moves wrap includes Belinda Cleminson, Tino Kapfumo, Michael van Uffelen, Barry Patterson, Joel Ives, Brett Tucker, Michael Rosenstreich, Justyn Stedwell, XiaoPing Yang, Narinder Singh, Sung Oh Lee, Rose Haddon, Rishi Singh, Carol Marinkovich, Shannon Coates, Fiona van Maanen, Damian Black, Graeme Johnston, David Crook, Shannon Green, Sufian Ahmad, Matthew O'Kane, and Jamie Myers.

Perth-based Hot Chili has arranged a $25.6 million private placement to fund the payment of its recent copper-gold project acquisition.

SRG Global has forecast solid earnings for the current financial year, supported by its $1 billion pipeline of work across a number of sectors including building, transport and iron ore.

Cloud-based software provider INX Software has acquired logistics solutions business Vix Resources for an undisclosed sum.

Galaxy Resources, Pilbara Minerals and Altura Mining will receive a 50 per cent rebate on royalties paid, due to the declining spodumene concentrate price.

Westpac and Commonwealth Bank are facing separate allegations over breaches related to funding and loan products, and interest rate charges.

Today's board moves wrap includes Alexander Burns, Campbell Olsen, Narelle Warren, Rachel Kerr, Ian Cunningham, Nicholas Bolton, Neville Bassett, and Tudor Marsden-Huggins.

Platina Resources will ramp-up its exploration efforts in Western Australia using the sale proceeds from its Skaergaard gold and palladium project in Greenland.