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Australian shares have closed down slightly as an early rally couldn't be sustained.

A BHP Group rail maintenance crew applied brakes to the wrong locomotive when they tried to help the driver of a runaway iron ore train, which ended up being deliberately derailed in the Pilbara region.

Australian shares have opened higher as energy stocks bounced after oil prices jumped more than one per cent overnight.

Bosses in watchdog’s crosshairs

QBE Insurance has been ordered to pay $10 million to a Perth investor who was a client of stockbroking firm Stripe Capital and former Perth broker Todd King.

The Australian sharemarket has started the week on a down note, with energy investors appeared spooked by news the world's largest wealth fund plans to sell its stakes in oil and gas companies.

Australian shares have opened lower after negative leads from overseas at the end of last week.

Brookfield in hunt for Chevron HQ partner

Australian shares have hit the skids over concerns about a global growth slowdown, with nearly every sector on the local bourse in the red.

As International Women’s Day is celebrated globally today, the WA Women’s Hall of Fame has inducted 15 high achievers into its ranks, including mining executive Bronwyn Barnes and Committee for Perth chief executive Marion Fulker.

Libs give Perth road, rail $100m

Australian shares hit a six-month high despite falls from major miners trading ex-dividend and disappointing retail sales figures.

Fremantle’s idle synagogue will be transformed into a restaurant and hospitality venue after Fremantle Council’s planning committee approved the proposal last night, the latest of a string of approved plans to repurpose heritage buildings in the area.

Australian shares are trading higher with broad-based gains despite falls from major miners trading ex-dividend and disappointing retail sales figures.

ScoMo reveals why WA will decide who wins the election

Australian shares have shot up as investors bet that weaker than expected economic figures means that the Royal Bank of Australia will likely cut interest rates this year.

A national survey released today by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) has identified major issues in the resources sector, with a majority of female respondents believing the industry is not diverse.

Australian shares have moved higher as investors digested lower-than-expected GDP numbers that indicated restrained consumer spending in the last three months of 2018.

Gorgon’s CO2 burial faces more hold-ups

Australian shares rebounded from some of their lows in the morning but have still closed lower for the first time in a week.

Australia's current account deficit has narrowed 33 per cent to $7.2 billion in the three months to December as higher commodity prices boosted the value of exports.

Australian shares have moved lower, erasing all of the market's gains of the previous day.

Job desperation

The Australian share market has finished higher for a third day, hitting its highest level in five months.

Research released today by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) has found a gender pay gap of $162,000 between Australia’s highest paid men and women, but women are progressing into full-time management roles at a faster rate than men.

The Australian share market has opened in positive territory despite the major miners starting the day with losses.

Premier implores miners to look local for steel supplies

Australian shares have rebounded to close higher for another day, the last official day of earnings season.

The federal government has today announced new and renewed appointments to its Takeovers Panel including Perth-based John McGlue, Shirley In’t Veld and Denise McComish.

Australian shares have dipped lower as gains in the energy and health care sectors were cut down by the rest of the market.

Barley faces China tariffs

Australian shares have finished higher on gains by the big miners and banks while investors took stock of several new earnings reports.