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Magellan Metals Pty Ltd has successfully negotiated a hurdle in its bid to export lead carbonate from Fremantle Port, with the Environmental Protection Authority this week recommending the miner be allowed to export lead from the port in bulk bags.

Major technological breakthroughs will be the key to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Sam Walsh.

CRYSTAL balls. Don't you wish you had one when you were preparing for a big sales call? Even more when you were in a big sales presentation?

The environmental approvals process remains problematic for industry in Western Australia, with the increasing regulatory standards likely to present a growing challenge for the state's miners.

Now that Kevin Rudd's 42-member ministry is firmly ensconced in Canberra, a few things need clearing up.

Moves by Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan to shift the timber industry to freighting its loads via rail rather than road have taken a new twist.

The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I

Local business has welcomed the long-awaited funding for the final link in the Indian Ocean Drive north of Perth, announced by Premier Alan Carpenter last week.

Plans for a sustainable mixed-use development that will house up to 600 residents and deliver commercial space for about 2,800 workers in Subiaco are available for public comment.

Ausrtralia's mineral exports declined in value by 3.4 per cent in the September quarter of 2007 to $26.4 billion, ABARE has announced.

More than 700 hectares of land in Perth's southern suburbs has been rezoned for residential development, creating new opportunities for housing near the Perth-Mandurah Railway.

The State Government will spend more than $50 million on a major redevelopment of Albany Hospital, premier Alan Carpenter announced today.

HBOS subsidiary BankWest will launch a financial planning arm in March next year with plans to recruit more than 100 financial advisers over the next three years.

Western Australian small business owners are generally not a happy bunch when it comes to the performance of the state government, according to the latest MYOB Australian Small Business Survey released today.

IT services provider ASG Group Ltd has won a $2 million contract to deliver the Oracle Financials re-implementation project for the ACT Government.

New legislation that will pave the way for a geothermal industry in Western Australia has been passed by both Houses of State Parliament.

Western Australian canola growers are reaping early benefits of the Victorian and New South Wales Governments' decision to lift their moratorium on the commercial production of genetically modified crops, WA agriculture and food minister Kim Chance said.

Australian commodity export earning are forecast to increase by 1 per cent to more than $140 billion in 2007-08, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economic's Australian Commodities publication.

The Nationals WA leader Brendon Grylls says regional WA has been well-served by Agricultural Region MLC Murray Criddle who today announced his intention to retire from the WA Parliament early in the New Year.

Every year, usually over the March long weekend, accounting firm Gooding Pervan shouts its 45 employees to an overseas holiday in a five-star hotel.

Tom Gutteridge - Black Swan Theatre Company

While the state government says the changes to WA's liquor laws are working, others claim local councils are proving to be a big stumbling block.

The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia has highlighted the tight supply of commercial and industrial land in Perth, questioning the number of potential industrial lots, which reportedly stands at around 1,500.

When Coogee Chemicals boss Gordon Martin addressed a WA Business News breakfast last month, he said one of his golden rules was that there was no room for politics in running a business.

The state government has responded to the acute shortage of industrial land in and around the Perth metropolitan area by allocating $1million for the development of an industrial land planning strategy.

Playing an Xbox computer game at work in the middle of the day may sound like some university students' fantasy job, but for employees at Como-based online flower company, Ready Flowers, it's all part of the culture.

Curtin University of Technology is hosting the tenth annual Australian Technology Network of Universities Conference from January 29 to 31 at the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Wesfarmers has become Australia's largest sector employer, but like all employers it has to grapple with labour shortages.

Prominent restaurateur Nic Trimboli has previously told Gusto he is a big believer in retaining talented staff by providing them with opportunities at new venues.

Is one of the answers to our skills shortage right under out noses?

The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government's Department of I

The resources sector is again at the forefront of community initiatives, with BHP Billiton Ltd committing $5 million to fund resources research and education at the University of Western Australia Business School.