The premier and the member for Fremantle Adele Carles have been cleared of any misconduct by the Corruption and Crime Commission, over an alleged voting arrangement in return for an extra staffer.
The number of people training as apprentices in WA has increased by 29 per cent over the last five years, according to research by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.
Australia lost three wickets in the second session on the fourth day of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide to go to tea at 3/160, still 215 runs behind England's first innings score.
Beadell Resources has completed a deal to sell the Amapá Iron Ore Royalty for $31.25 million cash to global natural resources royalties company Anglo Pacific Group.
AusGroup has been awarded a restart order for a $12 million contract by Metso Minerals for the construction of two Twin Cell Car Dumpers and two Positioners for Fortescue Metals Group.
Belmont-based Essa Australia has recommended shareholders accept a $38.7 million off-market takeover offer by publicly listed Danish company FLSmidth & Co.
Adelaide-based Beach Energy has launched an unconditional $75 million on-market takeover for West Perth-based Impress Energy, terminating a merger plan.
Australia's openers have survived the first session of the fourth day of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide, and at lunch are none for 78, still trailing England on the first inning by 297.
Coventry Group has issued a profit warning for the first half of 2011 saying that its earnings before interest and tax is likely to be 20 per cent below the previous corresponding period.
Fortescue Metals Group has taken another step toward meeting its pledge to find jobs for at least 300 Aboriginal workers, recruiting 11 Fitzroy Crossing graduates from its Vocational Training and Employment Centre in Port Hedland.
Delays and cost blowouts at Woodside Petroleum's Pluto LNG project have resulted in international ratings agency Standards and Poor's downgrading Woodside's credit rating to BBB+ from A-.
Rio Tinto has bolstered its links with China, with the announcements today of an extension of its Pilbara joint venture with SinoSteel and an Asia-based minerals exploration joint venture with Chinalco.
Australia will be hoping for a repeat performance of Mike Hussey and Brad Haddin's epic 307-run stand in the first Ashes test, after Steven Finn claimed the wicket of Marcus North just two overs before the tea break, leaving Australia reeling at 159-5.
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has become the latest in a string of engineering contractors to revise its profit forecasts downwards for financial year 2011.
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants a ruling by Fair Work Australia which will see employees paid public holiday rates when Christmas holidays fall on a weekend to be reviewed.
Australia is 3 for 94 at lunch on the first day of the second test at the Adelaide Oval after Shane Watson and Mike Hussey steady the ship from a precarious 3 for 2.
The Chinese majority owner of Moly Mines, Hanlong Mining Investment, has received Chinese government approval for a $US466 million loan to complete financing for the Spinifex Ridge molybdenum-copper project in the Pilbara.
A special sitting of the Legislative Council has passed the state government's royalties deal with Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton and has also passed a bill allowing Fortescue Metals Group to expand its export facilities at Port Hedland.
Equinox Minerals has declared its $1.25 billion takeover offer for Citadel Resource Group free of all defeating conditions if it receives an interest in Citadel shares of more than 50 per cent by December 16.
The Housing Industry Association has released a report, which shows that as of June, apprentice and trainee employment in WA is down 15.1 per cent compared with the pre-GFC figure.
