Prime Minister Tony Abbott has rejected spending more public money to keep Holden operating in Australia, amid reports the car maker's American parent company General Motors wants to close Australian operations by 2016.
The state government's $609 million City Link project is progressing faster than expected, with the project's $360 million rail component completed six months ahead of schedule.
The market capitalisation of Western Australia's top 100 listed companies has fallen on the back of lower commodity prices, marking an end to four months of consecutive gains.
The slowing of Western Australia’s population growth as forecast in this year’s state budget appears to be well under way, particularly in response to the tapering off of resources construction activity.
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has offered the states and territories incentive payments to sell off public assets and put the money into new job-creating infrastructure.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann insists there is a budget emergency, but that doesn't mean the government has to act in a "panicked, chaotic fashion" to deal with it.
The state government will retrospectively amend its land tax legislation after a court ruling broadened the potential for property developers to obtain an exemption.
Almost 200 police officers are set to quit the Western Australian force under a voluntary severance scheme designed to ease pressure on the state budget and put more police on the streets.
The federal government will go back to the drawing board on schools funding from 2015 after finding what it says is a $1.2 billion shortfall in Labor's scheme.
Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens says he is prepared to put the final nail in the coffin of the "uncomfortably high" Australian dollar if need be.
The Australian Institute of Company Directors has released its bi-annual Director Sentiment Index survey showing confidence of Australian directors about business and the future of the economy has improved since the election of the Abbott government.
The federal agency managing the government's bond portfolio says a buffer beyond what is expected to be the peak in commonwealth debt is needed to cope with unforeseen events in any one year.
Terry Redman has been elected as the new leader of the WA Nationals, replacing Brendon Grylls who yesterday confirmed he would step down from the Nationals leadership and from state cabinet.
Premier Colin Barnett won't guarantee the WA Nationals will retain the key regional development portfolio after Brendon Grylls confirmed he would step down from the Nationals' leadership and state cabinet in the coming weeks.
Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten is under pressure to authorise the release of confidential cabinet documents on the national broadband network's costings Labor received while in government.
The Australian Electoral Commission wants part of the federal election declared void because it can't be certain who would have won the final two Senate places in Western Australia.
