Mark Beyer

IF there is one subject that unifies people across the property sector it is concern with the lending policies of the banks, which have been criticised for being overly strict and not really unders

IT’S slow, it’s uncertain and it’s costly. That’s how property industry players describe the processes for gaining approvals for new developments.

Nationals MP Tony Crook has decided to support the Labor government's planned deregulation of wheat exports, leaving the Liberal Party's federal MPs in the unusual and embarrassing position of oppo

Energy giant ConocoPhillips coud become the second company, after Japan's Inpex, to transport gas from a field off the Western Australian coast to an LNG processing plant at Darwin.

Liberal Party MPs who have wavered in their support for wheat export deregulation are defying the party’s free-market principles and the robust policy-making process employed on this issue.

Traditional takeover activity in corporate Western Australia has been quiet this year but it’s a different story in the oil and gas sector.

The Middle East’s Gulf States have been a prosperous and perilous market for many businesses; those still in the region are focusing on Qatar as the brightest prospect.

Fortescue Metals Group has resolved its short-term funding problems after securing the backing of global banking groups Credit Suisse and JP Morgan for a new US$4.5 billion credit facility.

The sudden slowdown in mining construction activity will quickly flow from big companies to smaller businesses.

Australia is benefiting from multi-billion dollar growth plans being pursued by three major Middle East airlines.

Far away from the carnage in the iron ore sector, directors at select Western Australian companies in the gold, oil and gas and engineering sectors are being handsomely rewarded through the exercis

The collapse in the iron ore price is a stark reminder of how fast-changing market conditions require fiscal prudence, by governments, businesses and individuals.

The long-awaited Strategic Energy Initiative has some positives but more is needed.

FRESH from the opening of a $70 million logistics base in Hazelmere, private Australian company Linfox is on the lookout for more land to support its growth.

AUSTRALIA’S two major ammonium nitrate producers are punting $1.3 billion that the mining boom has enough legs to justify their investment in new production capacity.

At the very end of an extraordinary week, a late announcement from an unlikely source – Transport Minister Troy Buswell – gave one of the few clear signals about future growth in the mining sector.

BGC Contracting has won a three-and-a-half year extension to its mining contract at Atlas Iron’s Wodgina iron ore mine in the Pilbara.

After reading my local newspaper on the weekend, I was dismayed by the state of local government in Perth.

THE number of Perth shopping centres  changing hands this year has grown to six, with the conditional sale of Phoenix Shopping Centre for about $80 million; but there has been no progress on W

Seven West Media has reported a large rise in its reported profit but pro forma accounts that adjust for last year’s merger of West Australian Newspapers and Seven Media Group show a downturn in th

Mining contractor Byrnecut has boosted its work book, finalising a $350 million contract at the Kibali gold project in Africa to add to its recent win at St Barbara’s Gwalia Deeps mine, where its n

The Mannkal Foundation has challenged accepted wisdom on many public policy issues – exactly what a think tank is meant to do.

One-and-a-half years after being appointed as receiver of the $500 million Raine Square project, Mark Mentha reckons the proverbial sow’s ear is close to becoming a silk purse.

Gunson Resources has struck a deal to sell a 40 per cent interest in its Coburn zircon project to Korean steel producer POSCO for $28 million.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr has used a visit to the University of WA to announce increased aid to help African nations develop their mining industries, which he said was a much better way of

The planned Burswood resort expansion leaves Perth with several disconnected development hubs, reducing their individual and collective potential.

WHILE many miners and brokers were in Kalgoorlie this week, spruiking their business at Diggers & Dealers, the reality of the tough market was best illustrated by the growing number of companie

Western Australia’s top 100 companies have outperformed the national stockmarket over the past decade, but when markets turn down it’s the WA stocks that suffer the most.

Crown Limited and the state government have struck an agreement that is expected to result in the development of a new 500-room luxury hotel at the Burswood Entertainment Complex and a substantial

BHP Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers has defended the global mining giant’s track record, saying it has outperformed its peers over the past six months, as rumours spread of BHP contractors

Japan is overshadowed by China but is still WA’s second largest trading partner.