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A Perth researcher has criticised the federal government's hands-off response to a national inquiry into fly-in, fly-out practices, released two years after the House of Representatives standing committee tabled its report and almost four years after an inquiry into FIFO practices was commissioned.

With signs of a downturn growing, the next question is: how do we get the economy back on track to growth?

The state government expects about half of local prospectors' program of work applications will be fee-free from the start of July, after it substantially increased the size threshold.

Administrators at Deloitte say collapsed builder Capital Works Constructions may have been trading insolvent from at least June 30 last year, while it had not been paying trades and suppliers on ti

A former Western Power boss, the vice-chancellor of Curtin University, and a former Bethanie chief executive are among this year's local recipients of the Queen's Birthday honours list.

With apprenticeship completion rates below 30 per cent in some industries, the business sector is continuing to push for reforms to vocational education and training.

A looming shortage of skilled technicians in the oil and gas industry is the latest opportunity local business Blue Tongue is planning to tackle.

Everyone wants the vocational education and training system to be simpler and more responsive to the market's needs; can Liza Harvey and Jim Walker deliver? Click through to see more on our Apprentices and Training feature.

Vocational education and training is hard to manage within economic cycles.

Adelaide-based York Civil has won its fourth substantial project in Western Australia since opening its Perth office in 2012, after teaming up with an Italian contractor new to the WA market to win

The mining bust hasn't left dust, there is a wealthy legacy to exploit.

The Australian share market is in the midst of a horror run, with a massive $75 billion stripped from its value over the week, its worst weekly performance in three years.

It's been reported that seven maintenance workers at Alcoa's Kwinana Refinery in Perth have been exposed to asbestos, but the aluminium producer says the health risk is "extremely low".

Perth-based ferrotungsten miner Hazelwood Resources has kicked off a $12.8 million capital raising to repay debt and expand production at its ATC joint venture facility in Vietnam.

Former Fortescue Metals Group chief financial officer and director Chris Catlow has joined Subiaco-based Triton Minerals as its new chairman, with Alan Jenks stepping down from the head of the board to take on a director role today.

CBD hotel owners are mobilising plans to ensure their properties remain competitive with the flood of new builds coming to market, with nearly $50 million in redevelopment applications across three

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.

Developer Golden Group and the Town of Victoria Park are making significant progress at Belmont Park, taking steps towards marketing the first apartments at the racecourse by late this year or early next year.

Developing markets in Mozambique, Russia and Papua New Guinea are the new targets for local marine services player Bhagwan Marine.

Global Construction Services has won an extension to its contract to provide all of the onshore and offshore scaffolding works for Woodside Petroleum's North West Shelf project.

Dinner Twist is a local and clean alternative that delivers a box of fresh ingredients and recipes weekly.

Sirius Resources, which is in the middle of a takeover by Independence Group, has formally awarded GR Engineering Services a $114 million engineering, procurement and construction contract at its Nova nickel mine in the Fraser Range.

National Australia Bank will conduct another offer of new shares after failing to raise its intended $5.5 billion.

Bargain hunters and a rise in the iron ore price have helped lift the Australian share market following four days of heavy losses.

Gold prices are lower following some robust US economic data and shrugging off earlier weakness in the greenback.

The Australian dollar is lower as the fallout continues from the release of disappointing local retail spending and international trade figures.

Wall Street stocks have tumbled due to unease over Greece, volatility in the bond market and worries about growth after the IMF cut its US economic forecast.

John Howard says the Senate's decision in 1998 to water down aspects of the GST was economic ‘vandalism'.

Perth house prices were steady in the three months to the end of May but rents were down, according to the latest data from the Real Estate Institute of WA.

Oil prices have fallen sharply for a second day ahead of OPEC's summit to review its production levels amid an oversupplied market.

Developers are expected to compete strongly for a prime slice of riverfront land in East Fremantle, with the federal government putting the Leeuwin Barracks up for sale.

A Western Australian business more than a century old and a local player exporting internationally have cited innovation and perseverance as their secrets to success upon their induction to the Family Business Australia hall of fame today.