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National Australia Bank chairman Michael Chaney has defended the company's performance and strategy after facing shareholder criticism at its AGM.

Perth-based mapping services firm nearmap has bolstered its content offering, signing a commercial licence agreement to incorporate Google Maps into its products.

Engineering contractor Monadelphous Group has secured oil and gas contract extensions worth a combined $100 million.

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Shares in biotech company pSivida Corp surged more than 50 per cent today on positive regulatory news from the United States, making up most of the losses it suffered in a dramatic fall in October.

Shares in automated teller machine distribution company MyATM Holdings are higher after it announced it will acquire Perth-based cyber security firm iWebgate.

The new management team at accounting firm Lawrence Business Management has agreed to buy the business for $7.3 million cash from listed company Countplus, after two years of restructuring.

Wastewater treatment plants could be on the chopping block as the Western Australian government seeks to boost its coffers with asset sales.

Despite the naysayers, there is nothing about the Australian housing market that makes it obviously vulnerable.

The state government’s hopes of ending a $1 billion dispute with building magnate Len Buckeridge over the James Point port project appear to have been dashed, with the developer’s lawyer revealing

 US stocks have surged to new records after the US Federal Reserve modestly scaled back its bond-buying program in a much-anticipated decision.

After a tough, confidence-sapping year, business is taking a more positive outlook to 2014, according to a Business News subscriber survey.

The full 12 kilometre length of a planned new rail line to Perth Airport could be completely underground, Western Australian Treasurer Troy Buswell says.

Australia's long-run prosperity depends on federal government support for productive industries and more flexible workplaces rather than cheaper loans, the central bank says.

Bega Cheese has pulled out of the three-way battle for control of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.

Australian shares are marginally weaker as uncertainty about the US Federal Reserve's stimulus decision hits banks and retailers.

The state government has postponed some of its big transport infrastructure projects in order to reduce the projected increase in state debt, as it strives to regain its AAA credit rating.

Perth house blocks in new developments shrank by 9.2 per cent over the year to September, with the average size of a block sold declining to 415 square metres.

Woodside has for the first time confirmed the high cost of its shelved James Price Point gas project, though the figure it has released is not directly comparable to the construction cost estimates for other LNG developments like Chevron’s larger Gorgon development on Barrow Island.

Stockland has announced a $116 million redevelopment of its Baldivis shopping centre with plans to quadruple the size of the centre.

Eden Energy will continue to wait to sell its entire UK coal seam methane and shale gas portfolio for up to £11.5 million ($21 million), due to UK-based buyer Shale Energy failing to complete a £7 million capital raising for the purchase.

Western Australians could be using energy converted from municipal solid waste in less than two years if companies proposing waste-to-energy plants achieve their timeframes.

McAleese Resources, a subsidiary of McAleese Group, has been awarded a four year, $250 million iron ore haulage contract for Atlas Iron’s Mt Webber mine in the Pilbara.

Engineering and construction business Decmil Group has won a $147 million contract for work on the expansion of the Manus Island detention centre, taking its total awarded work at the centre to $284 million.

Australian engineering group UGL has been awarded a five-year multi-million dollar contract to maintain energy giant Chevron's Western Australia gas assets.

The Australian stock market is higher as investors sit on the sidelines awaiting the outcome of the US Federal Reserve's final meeting of 2013.

The architect of the Gillard government's school funding reforms, David Gonski, will take over as chairman of ANZ next year.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is keeping an open mind on further interest rate cuts, but says monetary policy can't do all the heavy lifting in the economy.

US stocks Tuesday closed lower as investors awaited Wednesday's conclusion of a much-anticipated US Federal Reserve policy meeting.

The business sector got the governments it wanted in 2013 but it’s unclear what policies they will deliver.

The state’s peak business group has hired a former chief of staff to premier Colin Barnett as its new chief executive. Deidre Willmott will succeed James Pearson as CCI chief executive.

The Australian dollar has fallen below 89 US cents for the first time in four months as expectations about an upcoming US Federal Reserve announcement continue to weigh on the currency.