The Perth's Children Hospital is on track to receive its first patients in May after the chief health officer today gave the facility's water quality the green light.
US stocks have risen across the board as fears about a trade war between the US and China eased following reports that the two countries were willing to negotiate tariffs and trade imbalances.
Gold prices rose to more than five-week highs on Monday after the United States said it would expel 60 Russian diplomats, prompting investor flight into assets considered safe havens.
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The Australian dollar is back where it finished the local session on Friday, managing to hold its ground despite falls in base metals prices and US stocks.
Crude prices on Friday hit their highest level since late January after the Saudi energy minister said OPEC and allied producers would need to keep coordinating supply cuts into 2019, and as concer
Oil prices have dropped after investors took profits after this week's rally and as US stock markets fell, but losses were limited by the continuing efforts of OPEC and its allies to curb supplies.
US stocks have fallen about 1 per cent on the growing threat of a global trade war as the Trump administration plans to impose import tariffs on China and as technology stocks stayed under pressure
The private group behind ambitious plans for a $1 billion-plus World Trade Centre development in Perth has prepared updated designs focused on the Megamart site it already owns in Northbridge.
Western Australian unemployment was up 0.2 per cent in February to be 6 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, while Australia-wide employment grew by a record amount.
The Australian dollar has rallied almost one US cent, after the US Federal Reserve raised its interest rate for the first time this year and paved the way for more rate hikes later this year.
Oil prices hit a six-week high on Wednesday, closing in on a three-year peak set in late January, on a surprise decline in US inventories, strong compliance on OPEC production cuts, and persistent
Gold rose more than one per cent from a three-week low after the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates and forecast at least two more hikes for 2018, falling short of the three more increases
Two new business groups plan to strengthen Western Australia's economic links with innovative overseas economies, with the Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce and WA Singapore Business Connect opening Perth chapters.
Online job advertising is growing at its fastest rate in 2.5 years in Western Australia, with the latest figures showing a 14.8 per cent surge in ads over the past 12 months.
The Australian dollar is back below 77 US cents, under pressure from falling metals prices, amid market caution about higher US interest rates and worries about a possible trade war.
Oil prices have climbed to their highest level in three weeks as tension in the Middle East and the possibility of further falls in Venezuelan output helped offset the impact of growing US crude pr
Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the US dollar strengthened ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting at which the US central bank is expected to raise interest rates for the first time this year.
Domestic violence leave and a capacity for court-made equal remuneration orders look more likely after an interim report of the state government's industrial relations review recommended some significant changes to the current workplace relations system.
The Australian dollar has bounced back from the three month low it hit on Monday, despit heavy falls on Wall Street, but following a bounce in gold prices.
Oil prices slipped on Monday as Wall Street slid more than one per cent and energy market investors remained wary of growing crude supply, although tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran gave price
