Western Australian farmers are projected to enjoy the highest rate of return in the nation, excluding capital appreciation, for 2014-15, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.
The share market has been dragged lower by the big banks and miners, while internet provider TPG Telecom shone due to its $1.4 billion takeover deal with iiNet.
EXCLUSIVE: Construction giant Brookfield Multiplex has taken the inside rail from rival Probuild to win the main construction contract for Woodside Petroleum’s new headquarters at the Old Emu Brewery site on Mounts Bay Road.
Quick service restaurant franchise Zambrero is making good on a 2013 pledge to open 50 stores in Western Australia by 2018, announcing plans to open 15 new outlets in the next 12 months.
Cyclone Olwyn passed over Barrow Island last night but left in its wake controversy over safety on the island, with unions criticising preparations for the cyclone, which hit one day after a worker
Emeco Holdings has diversified its business outside the mining sector by purchasing truck and trailer rental company Rentco, which was founded in 1994 by Perth brothers Bob and John Shier, in a structured deal worth at least $52 million.
An iPad app that helps children (or people with learning difficulties) to read. Friendly Phonics is a unique concept around correctly drawing letters and revealing exclusive, hand-painted artwork. The encouragement of repetition is the key to how it works.
Sydney-based TPG Telecom and its competitor iiNet scored a rare double today after announcing a friendly takeover offer, with shares in both the bidder and its Subiaco-based target rising strongly as investors welcomed the combination as a logical strategic fit.
While acknowledging the issue of patient safety, Labor’s attack on delays at Fiona Stanley Hospital are equally concerned with the privatisation of services.
Wall Street stocks have snapped a two-day losing streak, surging after big US banks cleared Federal Reserve stress tests and the dollar retreated from a 12-year high.
Gold has steadied as a retreat in the US dollar from 12-year highs arrested its eight-session slide, although speculation that US interest rates could rise sooner rather than later kept prices under pressure.
East Timor’s resources minister Alfredo Pires has revealed new studies by his country show an onshore liquefied natural gas plant for Woodside’s shelved Sunrise project is a commercially viable option.
Phil Byrne has resigned as managing director of Nido Petroleum, after presiding over two transactions that transformed the Philippines-focused oil producer.
The share market has enjoyed its best gains in almost a month due to jobs figures that were good, but not too good to scuttle an expected Reserve Bank rate cut.
Malaga-based wireless products manufacturer Acurix Networks provided free WiFi to about 150,000 people on Rottnest Island last year, with the average user spending more than one and a half hours on the service.
A Singaporean beef producer has bought the Pardoo Station in the Pilbara, including 5,800 head of cattle, with plans to increase the herd by 10,000 and develop further tourism facilities.
Mirvac and Singapore’s Keppel REIT’s $280 million office tower at the Cathedral + Treasury Precinct has hit a key milestone, with the building reaching its highest point at 33 storeys.
You don’t need to listen too closely to hear the pips squeaking in Western Australia’s iron ore lemon after a week-long debate about the state’s most important industry, which appears to be heading for a crisis that will hit companies and governments in equal measure.
From mid-July, China Southern Airlines will fly direct to Perth four times a week as the state government aims to reach 100,000 Chinese visitors to Western Australia by 2020.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has permanently banned former Patersons Securities WA state manager Lewis Fellowes from providing financial services after finding he had transferred about $1.5 million of clients’ funds into his own accounts.
More Western Australians were employed in February than ever before, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, but that was not enough to stop a 0.2 per cent rise in the state’s unemployment rate to 5.8 per cent.
Construction contracts worth $17.2 million have been awarded to four Broome businesses for a West Kimberley housing project that aims to benefit Aboriginal families.
Oil and gas company Neon Energy has reversed its decision to accept Evoworld Corporation’s takeover proposal, after an independent expert's report found the deal to be unfair.
Western Australia’s business and political leaders mingled with the next crop of entrepreneurial talent as a crowd of 850 people celebrated the 2015 40under40 Awards at Crown Perth last night.
