Mark Beyer

The team behind Western Australian success story Aurora Oil & Gas has quietly completed a $24 million private placement, the first capital raising for their new oil and gas play, three months after acquiring their first assets in Portugal.

This week, Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss markets turmoil, Aldi in Perth, property prices, some interesting new listings, conventions and conferences.

A Perth-based online gaming company that has raised $14.6 million from private investors is pursuing a stockmarket float after reporting spectacular growth in revenue.

Listed sandalwood producer TFS Corporation and China-backed Kimberley Agricultural Investment have been selected as the preferred proponents to develop 5,000 hectares in the Ord River irrigation area.

The proportion of Perth homes sold at a loss hit a three-year high in the September quarter, with owners of CBD apartments the most likely to incur a loss

Shares in Structural Monitoring Systems recorded big gains today after the Claremont-based company announced breakthrough agreements with The Boeing Corporation and the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States.

The state government has flagged more asset sales after its mid-year budget update confirmed deepening financial problems, with the annual deficit worse than expected and state debt tipped to reach an unprecedented $39 billion.

WA ministers hold growing influence in the federal government under Malcolm Turnbull.

Experienced investors such as Gavin Rezos and Tony Grist have shone brightly as the technology sector has attracted growing interest.

SPECIAL REPORT: One of the few positives in a tough year for business was the gold sector, and at the forefront was Northern Star Resources, under the leadership of Bill Beament.

The planned sale of Fremantle Ports is getting more complex amid uncertainty on the Perth Freight Link and the outer harbour development.

Strathearn Insurance Brokers has become the second big player in the sector to change hands this year, after US-based Arthur J Gallagher acquired the Perth firm for an estimated $60 million.

This week we discuss US interest rates, housing prices, privatisations, Roe 8 and find out our choice of Person of the Year?

Perth conservationist Harry Butler has been praised for his work as a community educator and a partner with industry, after passing away on Friday following a lengthy illness.

This week we discuss the continuing weakness in commodity markets, and the local impacts from that, and the legal fallout from post-boom disputes, innovation and startups, Perron Group and residential home building.

Recent annual meetings have failed to resolve long-running divisions at two of WA’s most important Aboriginal corporations.

Woodside Petroleum and its joint venture partners have given the go-ahead to a $2 billion subsea development at the North West Shelf Project off the Pilbara coast.

The liquidators of failed engineering contractor Forge Group have gained financial backing to pursue a claim worth about $200 million against Forge’s former major shareholder.

Stan Perron’s vast private business group has reported a solid lift in revenue and profit, with strong returns from land development projects and international equities offsetting write-downs on the Central Park office tower and its iron ore royalties.

Iluka Resources has terminated its long-running takeover discussions with Ireland-based Kenmare Resources, after being advised that Kenmare’s major shareholder would not support the planned acquisition.

SPECIAL REPORT: Newly appointed chief executives in Western Australia are mostly receiving lower salaries than their predecessors, but retaining plenty of upside through incentive schemes, a survey of nearly 40 new CEO pay packages has found.

SPECIAL REPORT: The 2015 CEO salary survey has some surprising names near the top of the list while some of the state’s best chief executives are unexpectedly low down.

CBH Group has cut its estimate of Western Australia’s grain harvest for the second time in five weeks, with the farmers’ cooperative now tipping it will handle 12.5 million tonnes in the current se

Rapidly growing online booking company HealthEngine has gained backing from newly established private equity group Go Capital and carsales.com.au founder Greg Roebuck in its latest $5 million capit

This week we discuss shopping centre expansion, the new landscape for city office tenants, iron ore prices  and our major CEO salary review.

Subsidiaries of listed companies Ausdrill and RCR Tomlinson have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and court costs over two workplace deaths five years ago.

Recently-listed IT company Cirrus Networks has bought Amcom L7 Solutions for a knock-down price of $500,000, four years after current Cirrus directors Andrew Milner and Matthew Sullivan sold the business for $15 million.

Former Atlas Iron managing director Ken Brinsden has joined a budding lithium producer that will pay less than half his old salary, even though the company has a market cap five times that of his old employer.

Kewdale company Goldstar Transport has struck a deal to buy the major assets of MJ & CM West Transport Services, nine months after another Pilbara-focused transport business changed hands.

SPECIAL REPORT: Third-generation family business R Moore & Sons is investing for its long-term future, which is likely to be under new ownership.

SPECIAL REPORT: Home builder Julian Walter and company director Tony Howarth have spoken to Business News about how they are working together on the transition to the next generation at JWH Group.

Indigenous contracting in the Pilbara is getting more competitive, more complicated and arguably more divisive, as players chase a shrinking pool of work.