Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a special meeting of national cabinet later this week to consider a proposal to strengthen the COVID safety of international travel processes.
Premier Mark McGowan has urged the federal government to resume national cabinet to discuss COVID-19 and the roll-out of a vaccine in the coming months.
The City of Perth has recommended GDI Property Group's timber-steel hybrid office complex proposal for approval, when the assessment panel meets later this month.
A late flurry of buying helped the Australian share market close little changed, and investors were keen on miners ahead of US Senate elections they hope will lead to government infrastructure spending.
A $190 million plan to transform Midland’s CBD is beginning to take shape, with a key component of the Midland Oval Redevelopment Precinct given the green light.
Three people who tested positive for COVID-19 while in hotel quarantine in Perth have now been found to have the more transmissible UK variant of the virus.
Investors have enjoyed a gain of about 1.5 per cent from the first session of 2021 on the Australian share market, after miners and particularly Fortescue Metals powered indices higher.
Communications consultancy Cannings Purple has shifted one of its founding directors, Warrick Hazeldine, from managing director to non-executive chair of the board following the retirement of outgo
The ASX has closed higher following broad-based gains, snapping a three-day losing streak as NSW appeared to be controlling the Sydney coronavirus cluster.
Shares on the Australian market had a third consecutive loss after investors were troubled by a coronavirus variant and underwhelmed by a US economic stimulus deal.
Shares in Fortescue jumped 4.9 per cent, and Mineral Resources 4.7 per cent, during an overall steady day on the ASX despite an economic stimulus deal in the US.
Australia's share market had its seventh consecutive week of gains helped by optimism overseas and a recovering local economy but investors will watch a Sydney coronavirus outbreak after it marred
NAB chief executive Ross McEwan expects the Australian economy will be back to pre-COVID levels by the end of next year, but acknowledges some of the bank's customers face a long struggle.
The requirement for people travelling to WA from NSW to self-quarantine has been reinstated after a recent outbreak of COVID-19 in Sydney, but only until a negative test result is returned.
Scott Morrison is confident premiers won't rush to close state borders again as NSW authorities race to solve the puzzle created by five new cases of coronavirus.
Premier Mark McGowan is awaiting advice from health experts before making any travel restriction decisions, after a Sydney airport worker tested positive to COVID-19.
