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Perth businesses have joined a global initiative investing in Greece’s future through philanthropy and economic development.

The 33 cents of every dollar spent by Western Australians on Lotterywest games each week has pushed the state lottery’s community contributions to a record high.

A creative arts Perth business with Aboriginal links has attracted the attention of more than 40 US editors and influential businesspeople, including editors at Vogue and Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, within a month of opening shop.

Business News shines a light on four businesses operating in WA that have achieved the highest level of national recognition for increasing opportunities for indigenous Australians.

Western Australia is set to celebrate its first small business day after a group of volunteers decided it was time to recognise the contribution of the more than 210,000 small businesses that operate in the state.

One out of every five Australian households now has solar energy installed, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

Marine services group TAMS Group has delivered on its potential to provide flexible options for customers in the marine services sector, winning its second Rising Stars award in two years.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra is breaking new ground in efforts to broaden its audience and appeal, and persuade the people of Perth that classical music is not the preserve of an elite clique of enthusiasts.

Just 12 years ago, the founders of Student Edge were students themselves; they’ve now built up a business with 750,000 members nationally and are set to expand their service offering.

How is it possible to remove an incumbent contractor (yet retain a good relationship) and save millions by negotiating with another organisation that agrees to take on greater risk?

Training standards in WA have been criticised by the auditor-general and big employers.

Renewable energy and battery storage products could shake up how things are done in WA’s resources sector.

Students at more than a third of Western Australia’s regulated registered training organisations (RTOs) have been exposed to range of serious breaches, including being taught by unqualified trainers and passing courses despite submitting incomplete or incorrect written assessments.

A Fremantle-based not-for-profit organisation is fighting back against a funding culture focused on new projects, seeking instead to draw on more than 20 years of goodwill to elicit support for its existing work.

Following a push by industry, the state government has released a step-by-step guide on how to promote and access greater cultural diversity.

Perth’s tight-knit angel investment community is growing more comfortable with soft tech plays, but there are calls for more investment in the ‘trickier’ tech.

Australia's first ‘electric highway’ is being unveiled today, connecting Perth to the South West through a series of fast-fill charging stations.

The chairman of a state inquiry into the impact of fly-in, fly-out work practices on mental health is confident Western Australia can enact a raft of recommendations to reduce suicides and improve wellbeing for the state’s 60,000 Fifo workers, despite admitting the federal government’s response to a recent similar national inquiry was ‘lame’.

Donations totalling more than $200,000 have been made in the past two days ahead of tonight’s CEO Sleepout fundraiser, but organiser St Vincent de Paul Society of WA is still hoping a final surge in contributions will exceed the $1 million mark.

A Western Australian company is anticipating a surge in global sales following preliminary results of state government-funded research into the effectiveness of shark deterrents.

A Perth startup raising funds for charity by piggybacking on shopping purchases made online is well on its way to making ‘giving’ cool and simple, according to its founder.

Almost 600 charities, including more than 170 bush fire brigades, have had their charitable status revoked by the national regulator.

Many of Perth’s top executives are short of their fundraising targets just three days before the year's major homelessness fundraiser, the CEO Sleepout.

State-owned electricity provider Synergy has declared itself to be at the ‘leading edge’ of energy management and storage technologies, after selecting a Perth contractor for a trial electricity battery storage project in Perth’s north.

Engineer, entrepreneur and restaurateur Michael O’Hanlon has declared he will run for the position of Perth lord mayor at the October election, based on an ambitious three-point economic plan for the city.

Roy Hill Holdings, its business partners and project contractors, have set up a $10 million community foundation they say will offer a “unique” approach to delivering educational and cultural programs to Pilbara communities.

Companies that have paid fringe benefit taxes as part of flying workers to remote locations may be able to recoup those costs, even retrospectively, following a landmark decision in the Federal Court.

Country Arts WA has welcomed a $24 million state funding program announced today in Bunbury as the biggest and most significant investment in arts and culture in regional Australia.

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At 25.3 per cent, WA’s gender pay gap is the largest in Australia, and is one of four main barriers to women joining boards, according to a new report.

A Perth researcher has criticised the federal government's hands-off response to a national inquiry into fly-in, fly-out practices, released two years after the House of Representatives standing committee tabled its report and almost four years after an inquiry into FIFO practices was commissioned.

With apprenticeship completion rates below 30 per cent in some industries, the business sector is continuing to push for reforms to vocational education and training.