The federal government has defended stimulus payments to 16,000 dead people and 25,000 expats, worth a collective $40 million, saying it was "unavoidable".
CONSTRUCTION and engineering company Paladio Group has unveiled major changes, with managing director Victor Kuss to step down and a name change to Decmil Group.
KEN Bowron (pictured) has been appointed as the new statutory head of EnergySafety WA. Mr Bowron was previously the general manager of regional businesses at Western Power.
WOODSIDE Petroleum has entered a deal with Apache Corporation for the supply of gas from two Western Australian fields for a second processing train at its Pluto liquefied natural gas facility.
FORMER senior deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Western Australia, Professor Margaret Seares, has joined the National Research Infrastructure Committee.
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ILUKA Resources has received final regulatory approval for its $420 million Jacinth-Ambrosia mineral sands project in South Australia, which allows mining to begin.
THE increasing popularity of social networking websites has yet to leave its mark on job seekers in Australia, with nearly half of respondents to a new survey saying it does not help their career deve
THE senior executive team at Wesfarmers has agreed to a salary freeze for two years and will forego individual bonuses potentially worth a collective $4.5 million.
Frankland River Olive Company director Paul Letari has significantly boosted his shareholding, spending more than $1 million in the rights issue to take his interest to just over 19 per cent.
High investor demand has lifted Carnegie Corporation's capital raising target to nearly $6 million with funds to be used to acquire the intellectual property rights to a wave energy technology.
Cash-strapped Maximus Resources has put its assets up for sale, including its stake in the Windimurra uranium deposit in WA, as it resigns itself to the belief it will not be able to raise enough funds to develop its first major mine.
Western Australia has experienced the largest fall in skilled job vacancies in the country for May with a drop of more than 11 per cent, above the national decline of 7 per cent, new data shows.
Mining services company Emeco Holdings has again cut its net profit forecasts for the current financial year as a result of continuing volatility in global mining and construction industries.
Rio Tinto has agreed to a "realistic" cut of more than a third in iron ore prices with Japan's biggest steel maker, as its customers face up to challenging market conditions.
Eastland Medical Systems plans to raise more than $2 million, partly underwritten by Patersons Securities, to fund the final step of its anti-malaria treatment project.
Property developer Aspen Group has locked in $41 million from its planned $82.4 million capital raising, with the institutional component oversubscribed.
TWO Western Australian quasi-government agencies will pocket almost $120,000 in funding under the federal government’s Enterprise Connect’s small grants round, designed for remote and regional small t
ARCHITECT Steve Woodland has been appointed Western Australia’s new government architect. Mr Woodland is design director for architectural firm Cox Howlett and Bailey Woodland.
HAVING recently won a number of international awards for a local radio advertising campaign, The Brand Agency is optimistic of a good showing at the world’s most prestigious advertising awards ceremon
