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The Western Roads Federation has called for truckies to be included in the federal goverment's business assistance package, as it emerged today the two-week closure of the Eyre Highway would continue after bushfires were upgraded to emergency level.

Engineering group Monadelphous has secured several new construction and maintenance contracts, including three with BHP, worth a combined value of around $110 million.

Terry Gardiner, current non-executive director of Affinity Energy & Health, has taken over from Jessica Rodrigues as company secretary.

Minderoo Foundation, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA and Fenix Resources made senior appointments over the holiday break.

Rick Higgins will be retiring as non-executive director of BWP Trust in early February, having served on the board since 2007.

Australia has edged out Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on an annualised basis, according to national consultancy Energy Quest.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia fell 2 per cent last month and 5.4 per cent during 2019, with national sales crashing to their lowest since 2011.

Bannerman Resources has appointed Robert Orr as chief financial officer and company secretary, replacing Robert Dalton who has been financial controller and company secretary for o

Clive Brown has retired as non-executive director of CI Resources.

Garret Dixon has been appointed non-executive chair of Fenix Resources from January.

Our board moves wrap includes Leigh Warnick, Marc Ducler, John Jones, Peter Stern, David Varcoe, Graeme Smith, Andrew Barclay, Matt Hardisty, Matthew Banks, Alexander Hewlett, Zane Lewis, Simon Jenkins, Brad Underwood, Mathew Whyte, and Mark Strizek.

David Sanders has been appointed an alternate director for Matt Hardisty at Anglo Australian Resources.

Our board moves wrap includes Max Johnston, Krista Bates, Cheryl Edwardes, Andrew Richards, Stephen Copulos, John Cathcart, Beau Nicholls, Matthew Bull, Peter Smith, Alan Armstrong, Leigh Junk, Rohan Williams, Ian Cochrane, Amanda Burgess, Kevin Hart, John Kolenda, Andrew Jensen, Arjan van Ameyde, and Horst Kreuter.

A note to our readers that Business News will take a break over the holiday season, with our daily emails and regular coverage resuming on January 6.

MG Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cubbie Farming to investigate the feasibility of growing cotton in the East Kimberley region.

Australia’s chief executives have listed digital transformation as their top concern heading into a new decade, according to KMPG’s annual survey of nearly 200 c-suite executives.

Our weekly appointment wrap includes Jeff Howard, Warwick Lynch, Aaron Morey, Stuart Gale, Lee-Anne de Bruin, David Hochwald-Jones, David Simpson, Sarah O'Shea, Simon Leunig, David Lock, Stuart Gula, Mark O'Brien, Michelle Shafizadeh, Sharryn Jackson, Greg Joyce, Llewellyn Jones, Steven Burns, Sasha Sari, Cal Doran and Amy Lee.

WA consumers are entering 2020 with subdued confidence, according to research from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA, with four out of five consumers surveyed expecting the economy to worsen or stay the same.

Our board moves wrap includes Geoffrey McNamara, Bob Vassie, Joshua Ong, Vicki Xie, Bruce Clement, Steven Michael, David Kelly, and Liz Hough.

Sea to Summit will receive $30 million as part of a contract with the Australia Defence Force, with the WA-based defence business providing shelters, training and protective equipment to personnel in Australia and overseas.

Neometals has secured funding from the Innovative Manufacturing CRC to accelerate development of its synthetic zeolite manufacturing process.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA has celebrated the addition of 12,000 jobs to the state's resource sector in the 2018-19 financial year, bringing the overall number of workers employed in the sector to 124,010.

WA’s cultural infrastructure offers a window into the evolution of the state’s artistic offering over the past century

Our board moves wrap includes Brian Joseph, Andrew Richards, Stephen Copulos, Kym Verheyen, Rebecca Broughton, and Arthur Palm.

Common household expenses have increased markedly in the past year with many low-income earners unable to keep pace, according to new modelling released by the WA Council of Social Service.

WestStar subsidiary SIMPEC has been awarded $6 million in contract extensions, bringing the total value of contracts awarded to the company since July to $30 million.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is confident his government will be able to keep its election promise of surpluses over the next four years, despite marked downgrades to the outlook in his last budget update.

Our board moves wrap includes Andrew Barclay, Matt Hardisty, Melissa Chapman, Matthew Foy, Tim Markwell, Michael Atkins, Debra Bakker, James Wallbank, Simone Suen, Greg Miles, Janet Wicks, RuCai Ding, ShaoFeng Li, Peter Watson, Peter Main, Daniel Harris, David Riekie, and John Hodder.

Talga Resources has raised $3.25 million from an institutional placement, following the announcement of a $6 million raising from an oversubscribed share purchase plan earlier this week.

The Manjimup-bred burgundy apple Bravo is closer to being sold internationally, after businesses in Europe and South Africa signed an MOU to progress plans for its commercialisation.

A quarterly rebalancing of S&P/ASX indices has resulted in South32 being relegated from the top 20 index, and Galaxy Resources being dropped from the top 200 index.

The corporate regulator is seeking to wind-up an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme run by Mt Hawthorn resident Chris Marco, who received about $240 million from 132 investors.