State Labor leader Eric Ripper has blasted Prime Minister Julia Gillard for using him as an excuse to deny Western Australia more than $200 million in native title compensation.
The Australian Labor Party's national conference has backed the federal government's commitment to a budget surplus and rejected a bid by the Left faction to expand the reach of the mining tax.
Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb is standing by the accountants who have been have been fined for breaching professional standards in costing the coalition's 2010 election policies, saying
A consortium led by St John of God Health Care has been named as the State government's preferred provider to open a $360 million public hospital in Midland in mid-2015.
If Australia is to export uranium to India there must be strong enforceable safeguards against improper use, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor says.
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says new Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos will head a coalition taskforce to find ways to reduce bureaucratic red tape for business.
Another global financial crisis may be on its way, according to Bunnings and Officeworks managing director John Gillam, but he claims tough times are nothing to fear.
Federal finance minister Penny Wong says the federal opposition's economic credibility is in tatters after the accountants who costed its 2010 election policies were found to have breached professi
A moratorium has been recommended for all future coal seam gas (CSG) projects until further research is carried out and the approval process tightened to cover such issues as how salt will be dispo
The nation's peak business group has called on the federal coalition to work with the minority Labor government to head off "retrograde" Greens policies on industrial relations.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he will congratulate Wayne Swan if the federal treasurer delivers his promised budget surplus.But only after he falls over with surprise.
Treasurer Wayne Swan is defending the growth forecasts in the federal government's mid-year budget review despite his own warnings of dark clouds looming overseas.
Mining Minister Norman Moore has turned down the opportunity to become WA's next Agent-General in London, a likely disruption to Premier Colin Barnett's plans to bring new blood into the cabinet we
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will chair the first meeting of a new manufacturing task force tomorrow, as new figures indicate the dire state of the sector.
Environment Minister Bill Marmion says he would be concerned if a manager who approved a prescribed burn that became a destructive bushfire was not stood aside.
Australia is regarded as one of the world's safest borrowers, after a global ratings agency upgraded the country to the highest possible rating for its overseas borrowings.
Trade Minister Craig Emerson believes it is important to return the federal budget back to surplus so there's room for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut interest rates again if needed.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says tough cuts would not be needed in the federal government's mid-year budget review if Labor had not wasted billions of taxpayers' dollars.
Rio Tinto has maintained its faith in Chinese growth by raising its Pilbara iron ore production target, even though it admits customers are becoming increasingly cautious about the world economy.
The Australian dollar has opened slightly higher, on talk of a possible bailout solution for eurozone countries, after a week of increasing fears for the European currency.
