Mark Beyer

Listed companies and government ministers keep on dishing up the kind of spin that frustrates investors, journalists and anybody else who wants to know what’s really going on.

IF trading during their first week is any guide, the hospitality venues in the Brookfield Place heritage precinct will be a major drawcard in Perth.

Newly restored heritage buildings on St Georges Terrace are set to become a showpiece, but architects and developers worry new rules will halt other projects.

Engineering contractor Laing O’Rourke and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have been awarded a contract to deliver four cryogenic tanks for the $34 billion Ichthys LNG project, with Perth-based engineerin

IFS Construction Services is facing its second boardroom battle in two years, after former managing director Scott Williams teamed up with Perth business executives including Justin Walawski and Gr

Balcatta construction company Oostveen Pty Ltd, which previously traded as Niche Construction WA and Niche Developments, has been placed into external administration.

Hancock Prospecting subsidiary Roy Hill Holdings has awarded a construction contract, believed to be worth $46 million, to Perkins Builders for a new corporate headquarters and remote operations ce

The state government has announced plans to put $1.1 billion of Royalties for Regions money into a Future Fund, despite pressure from business groups, which argued the government should focus on th

The state government has reshaped its capital works program, with more money to be spent on social infrastructure in the city, including a new museum, but less on regional hospitals, ports and road

The creation of a $1.1 billion Future Fund, a major shift in capital works priorities, tax breaks for small business and a slim surplus are the major features of the state government budget announc

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman has taken the first tangible step towards his strategy of diversifying beyond the company’s big growth projects in Western Australia.

The weight attached to the annual budget, at both a national and state level, goes well beyond their real importance.

THE federal government has scaled down the expected revenue from its controversial mining tax and scrapped the planned 1 per cent cut in the company tax rate.

Forge Group subsidiary Cimeco and its indigenous joint venture partner Pilbara Logistics have won a $41 million construction contract with BHP Billiton Iron Ore.

Perth-based investor group Investmet Limited has agreed to underwrite a complex recapitalisation of Swan Gold Mining, adding to a string of mining deals it has undertaken this year.

The state government’s $130 million Pilbara Underground Power Project has run into more flak after electrical contractor O’Donnell Griffin halted work on the Karratha phase of the project.

The RBA’s interest rate decision this week signalled some big changes in Australia’s banking industry, and continuing risks in the global economy.

Giant liquefied natural gas projects like Gorgon and Pluto dominate coverage of the oil and gas sector, yet there are plenty of other developments under way.

Shell’s development of a world-first floating LNG project off the Kimberley coast is likely to be a game changer for the industry, allowing extensive ‘stranded’ gas assets to be developed.

If you are a ‘glass half-full’ person, the LNG boom has presented great opportunities for local industry, but not everyone is happy.

Changing global markets and local community pressures are crimping the growth prospects for big gas projects but the industry is still in a boom.

A Treasury report seeks to demonstrate that the private sector can deliver infrastructure more efficiently than the public sector but does not explain its case thoroughly.

The state government’s freight strategy will see big changes, from Fremantle in the west to Kalgoorlie in the east and many stops in between.

The state government is spending record amounts on capital works projects but setting priorities and meeting demand remain major challenges.

The state government has identified 37 areas for future industrial estates in the metropolitan and Peel regions, which are expected to meet long-term demand for industrial land. 

AUSTRALIAN law firm Allens Arthur Robinson has added to the extraordinary variety in the Australian legal sector by finding a new way to come together with its international partner.

Alinta Energy has taken the first steps toward developing what it hopes will be a fully integrated energy network in the state’s north, potentially trumping plans by government utility Horizon Powe

National law firm Allens Arthur Robinson has struck an alliance with leading London firm Linklaters that will see the two retain their independence and separate branding but work closely together.

Sweeping generalisations devalue the worth of most commentary on fly-in, fly-out work practices.

Jobs growth in Western Australia has consistently outstripped the rest of the country, despite the release of data last week showing NSW and Victoria had the country’s strongest employment growth.

Nine international and interstate law firms have entered the WA market in the past two-and-a-half years and more are likely to follow. The industry is still debating what it really means.

State government agencies and trading enterprises will be required to cut spending and freeze their staff numbers after the state blamed cuts in GST grants for a tough budget outlook.