The state government has awarded construction company John Holland another significant regional contract, to design and build the first stage of the new $166 million Albany Health Campus.
Car sales in India continue to grow while Germany's luxury car manufacturers report strong increases in June sales, pointing to increasing demand in China, the United States, Britain and elsewhere.
Adelaide-based Built Environs, a subsidiary of international engineering and construction group McConnell Dowell, has expanded its Western Australian presence by acquiring Perth Building Company (PBC).
An alliance representing natural gas buyers claims the competition watchdog's approval of joint selling by the North West Shelf gas producers will add $2 billion to annual gas bills.
The Australian Tax Office will be cracking down on refund fraud, the cash economy, employer obligations, wealthy Australians and secret tax havens over the next 12 months.
A new survey has found builder sentiment fell back in the last quarter corresponding with declining expectations for building industry activity and raising concerns over future economic and employment prospects.
A new Brisbane-based satellite telco has launched in Australia focusing on remote and regional areas, targeting the mining and resources companies operating in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions.
Defence Minister John Faulkner has become the second senior minister in the Australian government to annouce plans to step down from his current role after the upcoming federal election.
Perth company Mobilarm plans to seek a third extension to the closing date for its $4 million initial public offering, highlighting the patchy demand for new sharemaret floats.
A Perth-based iron sands mining company, Mayan Iron, will list on the ASX this week after a successful initial public offering, ensuring exploration licences in coastal Guatemala and signing a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese steelmaker.
Australian mining executive John Carr-Gregg, tragically killed in a plane crash in West Africa, has been remembered as a gentleman and family man at a memorial service in Sydney.
The proposed $1.6 billion initial public offering for Bilfinger Berger's local arm, Valemus, which would've been the largest since Myer's $2.2 billion float in November last year, has been canned.
Campbell Brothers has lodged a bidder's statement on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary Australian Laboratory Services, making an off-market bid to acquire all ordinary shares in metallurgical services operator Ammtec.
Aquila's West Pilbara Iron Ore project is one step closer to the go-ahead, with a positive result evolving from its definitive feasibility study of Stage 1 of the project.
Port Hedland port, already Australia's biggest export port, has broken its own full year record with throughput of 178.6 million tonnes during 2009-10.
Shares in building products, sugar and energy group CSR Ltd rose strongly on Monday after the company said it had found a buyer for its sugar and renewable energy business for $1.75 billion.
Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has retained his popularity, emerging streets ahead of Labor Opposition Leader Eric Ripper as preferred leader, the latest Newspoll shows.
Victorian based Oz Minerals has spent $100 million to acquire a 19 per cent stake in Sandfire Resources, whose share price rocketed on the discovery of a gold-copper deposit near Meekathara last year.
The state government says the construction of two unique high efficiency gas turbines at the Kwinana power station will improve the reliability of electricity supplied to the state's south.
West Perth-based Crusader Resources has announced it has completed a $4.2 million capital raising to fund its gold, iron ore, exploration and mine developments in Brazil.
The federal government's mining tax compromise has received a mostly positive response from the resources sector but mid-cap mining companies are still angry they were left out of the negotiations.
BC Iron has reached an agreement with the Nyiyaparli People whose claim covered the southern part of its Nullagine Iron Ore Join Venture with Fortescue Metals Group, in the East Pilbara.
