Dan Wilkie rejoined the Business News editorial team as Associate Editor in late 2018, after having spent the previous 18 months launching the now-defunct Australia China Business Review as founding editor-in-chief. While specialising in commercial and residential property writing, Dan also wrote across industries and assisted editor Mark Beyer in planning and producing Business News' daily emails, fortnightly magazine and website publishing. Dan is a graduate of Curtin University.
Navigator Resources says it is set to eliminate its debt after Patersons Securities found investors to top up the balance of a $32.6 million rights issue, following an initial shareholder take-up o
THE City of Perth has unveiled a plan to revitalise the Gasworks Building and its surrounding precinct on Wellington Street, with the creation of an artistic hub for the fashion and photographic in
Planning Minister John Day says the state government is considering mandating more local government involvement in its plan to establish a redevelopment authority to oversee the entire metropolitan
Amcom Telecommunications says it is well placed to gain leverage in the emerging cloud computing sector after lodging a 50 per cent increase in net profit after tax to $25.9 million for financial y
Woodside Petroleum says talks with other gas owners about buying volumes to underpin an expansion of its Pluto liquefied natural gas project in Western Australia are edging closer to completion.
Western Australia’s environmental regulator has recommended approval of Murchison Metals’ plans to expand the Jack Hills iron ore mine in the Mid West.
Mount Gibson Iron has announced a life-of-mine off-take agreement with commodity producer and marketer Glencore International for hematite iron ore from its Extension Hill mine in the Mid West.
Shares in Greenland Minerals and Energy spiked by 20 per cent after the Perth-based explorer announced it had finalised an agreement to acquire the remaining stake it does not already own in its fl
Internet service provider iiNet has launched a plan to buy back five per cent of its issued capital, after reporting a strong rise in underlying profit and a small dip in net profit.
Property investor BWP Trust has announced an increase of distributable profit of 12.2 per cent for the year to June 30, driven by fast growth in rental incomes stemming from its acquisition of 11 B
Austal has formally signed a $330 million contract with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service to build eight new high-speed patrol boats.
VDM Group shareholders have voted in support of the troubled contractor and consulting group’s plan to raise up to $52 million to return its balance sheet to the black.
Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has won a court victory in its acrimonious native title battle with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation, which appears to pave the way for development
Perth-based oil and gas junior Otto Energy has announced a $US18.7 million deal to increase its stake in the Galoc oil field in the Philippines to 33 per cent.
Planning Minister John Day says he is considering an amendment to further strengthen local government input into his plan to introduce a redevelopment authority to oversee the entire metropolitan a
Mount Gibson Iron will issue its first dividend to shareholders after booking a net profit of $239.5 million for financial year 2010-11, an increase of 81 per cent on the previous year’s results.
Gindalbie Metals says it is in the home straight for the commissioning of its Karara iron ore project in the Mid West, after signing on AGC Industries as its preferred supplier for structural mecha
The owners of the Guildford Hotel have submitted redevelopment plans to the City of Swan that include a small retail complex and fresh food market at the southern end of the site.
The number of company collapses in Western Australia decreased in June from the previous month, while climbing across the nation, in another sign the state is the driving force behind the nation’s
Bankwest has announced a big lift in its cash net profit, raking in $463 million in financial year 2010-11 after lodging a $45 million loss the previous year.
Focus Minerals has increased its stake in Crescent Gold to 62.1 per cent, after finalising acceptances from Deutsche Bank for its remaining holding in the takeover target, but a new shareholde
Harvey Norman says it will close three of its Rick Hart stores in Western Australia after posting a 1.7 per cent increase in global sales for the year to June 30, earning $6.18 billion.