Sam Jones

The state government has unveiled a co-investment program aimed at assisting WA-based businesses in the wind energy industry to scale up, with $8 million in funding available.

As Australia's longest-running tech and innovation festival kicks off in Perth, the state government has announced its latest round of innovation grant recipients.

Liv Declerck and Isabel Vieira discuss the largest project in the Noongar Place Names initiative.

Australian house prices have experienced their weakest growth in almost two years, as experts warn a downturn is gathering momentum in the major capital cities.

Tom Zaunmayr and Nadia Budihardjo discuss a survey on the future issues of Perth.

Carbon abatement company SeaStock has officially opened its Fremantle headquarters, adding to a year of milestones.

East Victoria Park could be set for a new supermarket precinct, after a $27.5 million development application was submitted for a two-storey shopping centre and childcare facility.

Nadia Budihardjo and Claire Tyrrell discuss a shifting trend in office fit outs, in favour of green spaces.

Australian Finance Group has announced it is offering to take a non-controlling equity stake across its network of mortgage broking businesses.

A Perth-founded startup that provides an online platform for those wishing to rent community space has received $2 million from Purpose Ventures as it targets expansion to the UK.

The federal government's Future Made in Australia plan will exclude fossil fuel funding, under a deal struck with the Greens to pass 29 pieces of legislation on the last day of sitting.

Sam Jones and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the state's largest employers.

Australia’s annual inflation held steady at 2.1 per cent for October, remaining at its lowest since mid-2021.

Mining, government and supermarkets continue to dominate WA’s jobs figures despite upheaval in some sectors.

The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research has received $25 million in funding over the next five years, as the state government looks to cement WA’s position as ‘the place for space’.

Perth-based LatConnect60 will receive $3.5 million from the State Government to build the State’s first ever commercial satellite assembly facility.

Nadia Budihardjo and Jack McGinn discuss the business ventures of former Eagle Phil Matera.

Nadia Budihardjo and Justin Fris discuss a niche Perth pilates studio's chance to make it in the US.

WA-founded telehealth platform Hola Health has been named the state’s fastest growing tech company, with revenue growth of 1,521 per cent over the past three years.

One of Australia’s largest private hospital owners has announced it will terminate contracts with some of the country’s largest insurers, including HBF, after failing to agree to a rise in fees.

Nadia Budihardjo and Mark Beyer discuss a WA-invented brick laying robot's US trial.

Nadia Budihardjo and Jack McGinn discuss the challenges and opportunities facing first movers in the state’s hydrogen sector.

The Australian Signals Directorate’s annual threat report has revealed a nine per cent increase in ransomware attacks for the year, as parliament seeks to urgently pass new cyber security laws.

Mark Pownall and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the ongoing sale of Castelli Estate.

A Perth-based geospatial tech firm has unveiled its latest innovation, a data visualisation tool which can display the distribution and severity of pesticide resistance across Australia.

Bunnings Group’s use of facial recognition technology breached the privacy of thousands of Australians, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has found.

SRG Global has announced more than $700 million in contract wins in the water, dairy, health and resource sectors across Australia and New Zealand.

Nadia Budihardjo and Isabel Vieira discuss retail trading hours.

A promising new drug invented at UWA is set to begin clinical trials, which will observe whether, when paired with antibiotics, it can help treat chronic bacterial lung infections.

FBR managing director Mike Pivac says he expects an extraordinary period of growth for the company as it transitions from research and development to manufacturing homes.

Sam Jones and Nadia Budihardjo discuss the past year of WA's professional services sector.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has hinted he could scrap plans to reverse changes to stage 3 tax cuts for high income earners, saying it would “depend on the numbers” come election time.