Western Australia's housing indemnity insurance scheme has been exposed by the collapse of two Perth-based builders, with the state government facing a $12 million cost and a rise in building insurance premiums expected as a result.
Mining services company Viento Group has gone into administration, despite having won major new contracts in the past month with iron ore miners BC Iron and Rio Tinto.
FIVE years after buying private Perth business ComputerCORP and renaming it Synergy Plus, the directors of the listed IT services company have called in the administrators.
Mid-tier accounting group Hall Chadwick has filled the Western Australian gap in its national network by enticing Subiaco's Maxim Business Consulting Group to join the association.