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A group of One Nation supporters has lodged an objection to Pauline Hanson registering her party in Western Australia ahead of next year's state election.

National Australia Bank has called for greater leadership from government and more collaboration with business to help lift slow economic growth and create jobs.

Perth’s domestic gas users could have a choice between four retailers by July next year, with Sydney-based utility Origin Energy putting forward an application to the Economic Regulation Authority to enter the market.

Initiatives to encourage indigenous entrepreneurship such as accelerators, incubators and a government-backed venture capital fund were part of a suite of policies recommended by KPMG at the recent Indigenous Business, Enterprise and Corporations Conference held at the University of Western Australia.

Unemployment in Western Australia is now at its highest since 2002 with new figures today revealing a 0.4 percentage point increase to 6.9 per cent in November.

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Education, research, agribusiness and mining services will be the biggest winners from a recent sister state agreement signed between the state government and the government of Indian state Andhra Pradesh, according to Treasurer Mike Nahan.

Colin Barnett says the federal government should provide more funding to the state for major infrastructure projects to stem the economic slowdown that has hit since the mining boom ended.

Federal Attorney General George Brandis says he is unaware of any fresh action planned by the Western Australian government to bring the long-running Bell Group litigation to an end.

A $160 million project to build a utility scale solar farm near Cunderdin has received Development Assessment Panel approval and could be producing at 100 megawatts in time for Christmas next year.

The financial affairs of numerous previously low-key unlisted or foreign-owned companies headquartered in Western Australia have been released by the Australian Taxation Office for the second year running.

Mark Potter will be one of around 100 Western Australian industry representatives ready to tout the state's defence contracting capability at a forum with the federal government’s new Centre for Defence Industry Capability this morning.

Treasurer Mike Nahan has labelled opposition leader Mark McGowan’s plan to slash senior executive positions and bring in new key performance indicators as ‘not credible’.

The acting United States Ambassador to Australia, James Carouso, says there is enormous scope for increased American investment in northern Australia, including in the Broome and Ord River regions.

Commerce Minister Michael Mischin will today encourage local defence contractors to apply for a state government industry assistance program to fund productivity enhancements, speaking at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA defence conference.

Perth should consider increased use of private water recycling infrastructure in new residential developments to reduce costs for consumers and lower the capital burden on the taxpayer, according to a report by ACIL Allen to be released today.

The state’s domestic gas market is expected to have excess supply of 640 terajoules per day by 2021, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator, although a delay in commencement of production at the Wheatstone or Gorgon domestic gas facilities could lead to a tightening of the supply as early as next year.

The state government should pay for a slice of the environmental approval costs and release more freehold land in the Pilbara to encourage the growth of agribusiness in the region, according to spe

A proposal to roughly double the royalties paid by the state’s two biggest iron ore miners was divisive and could set a dangerous precedent for fixing budget issues, Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Nev Power told this morning’s Business News Success & Leadership breakfast.

A perfect storm has pushed Australia's economy halfway to recession, but economists are optimistic about a year-end rebound.

The federal government is moving towards changing the way road usage is priced, a reform backed in last year’s Harper competition review.

Three leading professionals have joined forces to take control of the Peppermint Grove branch of the Liberal Party, which is influential in the preselection process for Colin Barnett’s state seat of Cottesloe.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is expecting a negative blip in economic growth at the end of this year but is not overly concerned about it.

Legal issues swirling around One Nation’s Rod Culleton could cruel the party’s chances at the March state poll.

Western Australia experienced yet another horror month for new car sales, with the prospect of a last-minute turnaround to bring the year on par with 2015’s poor result looking very unlikely.

The federal government is on the brink of striking a deal with Western Australia to let the state run the National Disability Insurance Scheme locally.

A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government’s proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

Western Australian women have gone backwards in terms of the gender pay gap, with full-time workers earning on average 30.9 per cent - or $43,000 a year - less than men.

The federal government’s plan for a 15 per cent rate backpacker tax has been knocked down in the Senate, with the state’s farming body left furious and desperate for a solution.

Colin Barnett says he would like to see penalty rates cut for casual small business employees on Sundays and public holidays, but lift the base rate for standard hours.

The Barnett government is hoping to raise $3 billion by selling 51 per cent of Western Power to Australian investors, and will also use the privatisation deal to remove about $8 billion of debt off the state’s books.

The state government has allocated $2 million for a new co-working space in Karratha to promote small business and startups in the area.