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WA-owned and independent HHG Legal Group, Kott Gunning Lawyers and Slee Anderson & Pidgeon have all reached their 100-year anniversaries.

Woodside Petroleum has laid out plans to triple its gas and oil reserve base which will come from more than $US36 billion worth of projects in Australia, Senegal and Myanmar over the next seven years.

CommInsure will refund more than $12 million to about 30,000 life insurance customers after pleading guilty to 87 counts of unlawfully selling policies in unsolicited phonecalls.

The Australian share market has opened marginally higher after slight gains on Wall Street overnight.

Perth, Adelaide scrap over maintenance of submarines

Oil prices fell more than 1.0 per cent overnight, erasing much of last week's gains and tumbling alongside US stocks on uncertainty over a trade deal between the United States and China.

Gold edged up overnight, erasing losses from earlier in the session as fresh doubts over a US-China trade deal pushed Wall Street into the red.

Lithium miner Galaxy Resources said it would scale back operations at its Mt Cattlin mine in Ravensthorpe to help reduce costs until the electric vehicle market improves.

The Australian share market has closed lower, with every sector falling except for consumer stocks.

Perth-based IT services provider Empired said it would replace revenue lost this year with recently signed management services contracts, delivering $5 million in recurring annual revenue for the company.

A senior bureaucrat accused of Western Australia's biggest public sector theft is understood to be in a critical condition in hospital after an incident at his Perth home.

Several former Navitas executives have banded together to form Camino Global Education, following Navitas’ $2.3 billion privatisation in June which saw ownership partially returned to founder Rod J

Western Australia will experience a bigger police presence on its streets this summer but without more officers being hired.

National Australia Bank is looking to raise $1.4 billion through the issue of medium-term notes to help beef up its capital ahead of a regulatory deadline.

The Australian share market has been adding to its early losses despite a positive lead from Wall Street at the end of last week.

Woodside: LNG fields will help cut emissions

Oil futures gained nearly 2.0 per cent on Friday as comments from a top US official raised optimism for a US-China trade deal but worries about increasing crude supplies capped prices.

Gold prices slipped on Friday, on track to break a three-session winning streak as stock markets hit record highs following comments from US officials that progress was being made on the "phase one" trade agreement with the Chinese government.

Rio Tinto said it will subscribe to $326 million rights shares of Energy Resources of Australia, which has been desperately seeking funds to close and rehabilitate the controversial Ranger uranium mine.

The Australian share market has hit its highest level since late July, with gains across the board as traders bet that the country's sluggish economy will lead to another cut in the official cash rate.

Curtin University has appointed Perth-based agencies Longreach Media and Carat Perth to work on the university’s domestic media planning and buying.

A new investment office and tighter rules around local content on major projects are some of the latest moves in Mark McGowan’s economic strategy.

Two Perth builders have come up with more liveable and homely accommodation for fly-in, fly-out workers after more than 200 were surveyed.

National Australia Bank has admitted it faces the prospect of further remediation and a huge fine for multiple possible breaches of counter terrorism and anti-money laundering laws.

The Australian share market is higher with gains across the board despite a mostly negative lead from overseas.

FMG out of Guinea ore dealFortescue Metals Group has lost out to a global consortium on a tender to develop part of Guinea’s Simandou iron ore project. The West

Oil prices were mixed overnight as US crude futures were pressured by a build in domestic inventories and record production while forecasts from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries for a lower-than-expected oil surplus supported Brent.

Gold prices rose on Thursday as investors remained concerned about the imminence of a trade deal between the United States and China, while a slip in riskier assets and the US currency further supported the metal.

The Australian share market has risen broadly while the dollar has slumped to a one-month low after a rise in unemployment increased hopes for a fourth cash rate cut.

International School of Western Australia principal Maria Coate has taken a period of leave following the opening of a WorkSafe investigation.

Wesfarmers managing director Rob Scott says the Bunnings and Kmart owner has detected a "modest improvement" in retail conditions following a lift in property prices and government tax rebates.

Western Australia has recorded the largest increase in employment of any state for the month of October, up by 6,300 people, but its unemployment rate has remained static at 5.7 per cent, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.