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The business community and unions may both support reducing the gender pay gap, but their divergent approaches to a solution present a stark choice for policy makers, if submissions to a review of industrial relations laws are any guide.

The increasing uptake of automation, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies in the resources sector has led Core Skills to launch a pilot program designed for mining and energy employees.

The Australian share market is trading higher following a strong lead from Wall Street.

Pluto gas to supply WA soon

AWE has urged shareholders to take no action on a takeover offer from the state-run energy giant China Energy Reserve and Chemical Group, which remains unchanged from its initial bid of 73 cents per share, after it lodged its bidder's statement.

GR Engineering Services says it will continue to pursue legal action against Eastern Goldfields in relation to a contract for refurbishment at the miner’s Davyhurst operation, despite the Supreme Court yesterday referring the matter to arbitration.

The Australian share market has finished marginally in the red with only a resilient mining sector keeping a soft market out of deeper losses.

A group of shareholders in life sciences company eSense-Lab has requisitioned a general meeting to remove three directors, including chief executive Haim Cohen, while also seeking to appoint MMJ Phytotech managing director Andreas Gedeon and Otsana Capital founder Faldi Ismail to the board.

Gold miner Northern Star Resources expects to meet its full-year sales target despite a fall in December quarter gold sales.

Engineering and construction group Valmec has secured new contracts in the gas and infrastructure sectors worth $7 million, including work for APA Group at its Yamarna gas pipeline facility.

David Jones' South African owner Woolworths will take a $713 million write-down on the value of the department store chain as Australia's tough retail market bites harder into the business.

The Quintis story is another example of the failure of tax-driven plantation schemes to deliver for investors.

Osborne Park-based Tawana Resources has secured an offtake agreement for tantalum at its joint venture Bald Hill project, located south of Kambalda.

The Australian share market has opened lower following a night of mixed trading in the US and dips across Europe, with only resource and energy sectors showing real gains.

The Quintis insolvency could play out very differently from other failed agribusiness investment schemes.

China Energy keeps itself in the hunt for AWE

Financial advisers at the big banks have been found to be biased towards their employer's products, which in some cases has left their customers worse off.

One year into his new job, Cash Converters chief executive Mark Reid is on a culture change journey.

West Perth-based ICON Engineering has teamed up with Norwegian company Neodrill to secure a subsea wellhead foundation contract at Woodside Petroleum's Ferrand exploration well in the Carnarvon Basin.

The share market gained ground as demand for energy, healthcare and some financial stocks offset the impact of weaker commodity prices on miners.

Shares in telecommunications provider Swift Networks rose nearly 10 per cent today after the company released strong half-year results that show increasing revenue growth and profit margins.

The number of enterprise bargaining agreements active in Western Australia fell to 1,592 at the end of September last year, about 30 per cent down on the mid-2015 peak.

Four Perth-based miners have tapped investors for more than $30 million, with Panoramic Resources raising $20.9 million for its Savannah nickel project in the Kimberley.

Construction company Built Environs has failed in its attempt to claw back $14.5 million of performance bonds used by Perth Airport to cover liquidated damages associated with development of the new terminal buildings in 2015.

Meg Burrage’s WA-based co-working space offers the kind of flexibility parents with young children need.

The mining sector needs to embrace automation and address concerns of skills shortages as the industry outlook continues to improve, according to the latest mining business outlook report by Newport Consulting.

The Australian share market is higher in morning trade, following positive leads from US and European markets.

Trade win after Pacific deal sealed

The Australian dollar is a smidgen higher against its US counterpart after US lawmakers agreed an interim funding bill but there was no major economic data to inspire the languishing greenback.

Oil has risen more than one per cent, with benchmark Brent crude hitting $US70 a barrel for the first time in a week, boosted by healthy world economic growth prospects and expectations for continued production curbs by OPEC, Russia and their allies.

Gold prices have risen as the US dollar has fallen to fresh three-year lows, but an end to uncertainty created by a three-day US government shutdown capped gains.

City of Perth and Woodside are upping their input into Fringe World Festival this year as the arts event expands with new locations and online activity.