The federal government is looking for quick answers from a review it has established into the ability of temporary skilled migration schemes to help ease labour shortages.
THE state government has helped to secure major new contracts that will ensure the majority of beef sold to Western Australian consumers in Coles supermarkets is actually produced in WA.
Balcatta-based Clean energy technology group, Orbital Corporation Ltd, has forecast a profitable second half and full year after posting a reduced net loss after tax of $389,000 for the six months to December 2007, compared to $429,000 in 2006.
West Perth-based industrial company Schaffer Corporation Ltd has announced a net profit after tax of $5.8 million for the first half of the 2008 financial year, 11 per cent higher than the $5.2 million profit posted in the corresponding period last year.
Diversified West Perth-based resources group, Kagara Ltd, has reported an 8 per cent fall in net profit to $35.9 million for the six months to December 2007, on the previous corresponding period's $38.9 million result.
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Nickel miner Mincor Resources NL has announced a $31.3 million net profit after tax for the six months to December 2007, 16 per cent down on its $37.1 million profit for last year's corresponding period.
The federal coalition has rejected the preferred industrial relations policy of its leader Brendan Nelson and his deputy Julie Bishop, deciding instead that it will not oppose legislation dismantling the Howard government's workplace laws.
Year 11 and 12 students will be able to learn about minerals, petroleum and hydrogeology while they study environmental science issues as part of a new course launched by the education and training minister Mark McGowan today.
Premier Alan Carpenter has identified nine items of government legislation he expected the upper house of state parliament to pass in the next fortnight.
Western Australia's Chamber of Minerals and Energy has welcomed the package of skilled migration measures announced by the minister for immigration and citizenship, senator Chris Evans.
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An inquiry ordered by agriculture minister Kim Chance has found no evidence that the actions of the former chairman of the Environmental Protection Authority, Dr Walter Cox, constituted misconduct under the Corruption and Crime Commission Act.
The Western Australian Farmers Federation claims WA is under-represented on the federal government's newly formed Wheat Industry Expert Group, with just one WA farmer appointed to the grower-controlled alliance which will oversee Australia's wheat exports
Western Australia's industrial land supply is set for a further boost following the start of site works on stage two of the Avon Industrial Park near Northam.
West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd has joined a string of blue chip listed companies to be hammered by investors after reporting its result, with WAN shares down 10 per cent after announcing a $44.2 million interim net profit.
The Property Council of Australia has called on the state government to engage property owners, developers and financiers in the early stages of its $360 million Perth Waterfront redevelopment, by establishing a development authority to steer the project.
Subiaco-based Paladin Energy Ltd has secured US$167 million ($185 million) in project finance for the remaining funding component of its Kayelekera Uranium Project in Malawi.
The state government has helped to secure major new contracts that will ensure the majority of beef sold to Western Australian consumers in Coles supermarkets is actually produced in WA.
Covering territory equivalent in size to the whole of Western Europe, the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has attracted plenty of interest from Western Australian companies seeking to exploit its mineral reserves.
A new study of one of the state's first not-for-profit institutions, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals WA (RSPCA), may provide a valuable link to the past for historians and ideas for creating a successful structure for other not-
After a year of wrangling between key stakeholders, the starter's gun has been fired on the city's stadium project and Western Australia looks likely to have a 60,000-seat facility by 2016.
Perth-based custom software developer, Beacon Technology, has been bought by global IT management consulting firm The Birchman Group, marking the group's first acquisition in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region
Annual Conference: A decade of building partnerships The Australian Technology Network of Universities is holding an annual conference from January 29 to 31 at Curtin University.
Proponents of the expansion of Kemerton's heavy industry precinct expect it will take 18 months to complete a strategic plan for the area to define its long-term usage.
THE federal government's announcement this week that it would proceed with the establishment of a special body to study and plan Australia's infrastructure needs was a welcome recognition of the impor
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